Memory Expansion / Upgrade

[fitzsteve]

Hello All,

I have been reading about a guy who upgraded the Ram on he's GP32 to 32mb by soldering on new Ram :blink:

Does anyone know of a shop or somethinmg in the UK that will do it? I dont want to try it myself ill just wreck my shiney new GP32 BLU :rolleyes:

I want to play I mod I have for Quake (Malice) and it needs 16mb to run. It starts up up but I get an error and after researching I find that its a memory issue.

Thanks for looking,

Steve.

 

[Octavious]

well, heres the thing
t really hasnt been used yet to my knowledge
however, if you do find a place that will do it, post here
is a lot of people in the UK can get the mod, then maybe dev'ers will implement the code that lets us use more ram
( it would only take about 5 minutes )

~Octavious

 

[woogal]

I don't think upgrading your memory will help you just yet because I believe apps need to be modified to use the extra memory (unless spiv's latest bios can support up to 64MB without anything else needing to be changed?). If the code does need changing then you will probably be waiting a while for quake to support 32/64MB as I have no easy way of testing it (and I don't intend getting my own gp32 upgraded because I always like to target apps at the lowest spec machine). There are also loads of more important things that need fixing first too.

 

[Octavious]

but hey, you are still working on Quake right?

~Octavious

 

[don]

I don't think upgrading your memory will help you just yet because I believe apps need to be modified to use the extra memory (unless spiv's latest bios can support up to 64MB without anything else needing to be changed?). If the code does need changing then you will probably be waiting a while for quake to support 32/64MB as I have no easy way of testing it (and I don't intend getting my own gp32 upgraded because I always like to target apps at the lowest spec machine). There are also loads of more important things that need fixing first too.

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AFAIR, you only need his latest bios and a newlib patch for malloc() or something (Mirko's SDK has that built-in already). So, if I haven't got him wrong, it's just a matter of recompiling.

 

[Octavious]

just add I think 8 lines of code from cobbleware
If I t meant perfect Quake, then I might have to find somewhere to get the mod done

~Octavious

 

[fitzsteve]

Thanks for your replies, If I find somewhere I will let you know, I have tryed serching the net and posting here.

Nothing yet

Anyways, thanks for your time....

Steve.