THE ENGLISH QUICK GUIDE TO INSTALLING OUTSIDE The Virtual Memory Manager (C) 1991, 1992, 1992 Original Prorgam (OUTSIDE) by Uwe Seimet (C) 1993 English Translation and Quick Guide by Yat Siu In this quick guide their may be references to Company or (C)opyrighted names. This is to inform you that these are documented, only in the actual manual INSTALLATION Copy the program OUTSIDE on to your Hard disk in the AUTO folder. Try to place OUTSIDE ahead of any other program in the root directory. To check the order of your programs in the AUTO folder. turn off the sorting option on your desktop. Before you use OUTSIDE you need to configure OUTSIDE to your specific hardware. For this you use the program OUTCONF. After you have started your program (Note: The OUTSIDE disk has to be in the A:drive), you will be prompted with a file selector in which you can choose which OUTSIDE file you wish to configure. After that you may configure OUTSIDE. SWAP PARTITION First you will be prompted with all the harddisk partitions which you may use as a swap partition. OUTCONF will identify drive letters and its re- spective capacity (in Megabytes) which you may then use as virtual memo- ry.For every free megabyte in your sy-stem memory you can virtually mana- ge one megabyte in your swap-partition. Select your swap-partition through a simple mausclick. It needs to be said that no data may be written on to the swap-partition as long as OUTSIDE is active. The program will automatically prevent any such actions. This drawback is necessary as it needs to be prevented that data on the harddisk which now has some of your system memory gets overwritten. If done otherwise the system will crash. If the swap-partition contains files then the FAT needs to be absolutely error-free before you start OUTSIDE, otherwise no guarantee can be made about the safety of those files in the swap-partition. If OUTSIDE was inactive then the swap-partition can be used as a regular harddisk partition. After every new restart, OUTSIDE will reassess the free memory and how it will be managed. BLOCK TRANSFER The option called Seitengr”že is the size of the blocks transferred in and out of the Virtual Memory. Generally for Falcon and TT the size can be 32 Kbyte blocks which will also give zou the maximum possible performance and this kind of blockrate is guaranteed anyway in the PMMU. However not all programs work with such a block transfer rate, also in some cases the data transfer is quicker with a smaller blockrate, depending on how many programs you are using simultaneously. It would be a good idea to experiment. MAXIMUM VIRTUAL MEMORY The maximum set virtual memory is 512 Megabytes. However if you do not have that much in your partition that and it is set to more, then OUTSIDE will automatically recognize this and change the memory accordingly. ALTERNATIVE MEMORY This option is only important if you don't have TT Fastram, eg. a TT with ST Ram or a Falcon. This is a very special RAM and it is used in conjunction with the Virtual Memory, this makes the transfer a little faster if it was only ram though your harddrive. First OUTSIDE could only use TT Fastram because it was suitably fast, however this has changed. Now OUTSIDE can transform part of your ST Ram into Alternative Memory as well, however it has to be said that the performance is a little slower. Whatever quantity you take as Alternative RAM get's used in the actual Virtual RAM and is accounted for as well in other words if you use 2 Me- gabytes of your real RAM as Alternative and your Virtual RAM is 30 Mega- bytes you have a total of 32 Megabytes of RAM, according to your System, and in practical sense too. SO basically your RAM and the Virtual RAM in- termingle. But you still require a minimum of 2, megabytes of ST RAM to work with to run your system in. So if you had a 4 Megabyte falcon, you may use 2 Megabytes of it as alternative. Same goes for the TT, however if you have TT Fastram, then it doesn't matter anyway. ROM INTO RAM WITH OR WITHOUT COPY PROTECTION You can also select in this option if you wish to copy protect your Virtual Rom or not. There is a program called ROM Speed which will copy your ROM into RAM making it a little quicker. If you have a TT it get's copied into TT Fastram increasing the ROM to 30%, on a Falcon up to 7%. You have the option to protect that part of your RAM, so it cannot be changed during the course of your work. COMBATIBILITY MODE This option will allow you to transform your Data Transfer from 32 wide bit address to 24 (ST Compatible), as there are some programs aroud that will just not tolerate 32 bit wide addresses. If you wish to use your ST Cmopatibility mode with TT Ram then the TT Fastram has to be empty before use and maybe you might have to use the program OUTFLAGS to configure OUTSIDE so that it forces it to run in ST Ram. MEDIUM VERRIEGELN This option allows you to protect you from taking out your removable drive if you use a removable data media. (e.g. Syquest Drives). Once you have se- lected this option you are unable to change your Removable Cartridge until you run the program UNLOCK, after that UNOCK will automatically reset. HDDRIVER comes along with the OUTSIDE Package, and it is possible to configure HDDRIVER so that this whole procedure is done automatically. END OF CONFIGURATION Once you have done all the configuring you are now ready to use OUTSI- DE. Anytime you wish to reconfigure it just run OUTCONF again. However the Original OUTSIDE Disk has to be in Drive A: ASSISTING PROGRAMS Outside has many programs that come along with it to assist the usage of a Virtual Memory Manager as well as a completely own and new designed Hard Drive Manager. It is not necessary to use it, and in the U.S.A. ICD is already a very popular standard. However in the Manual there is an exact description of how to use it.