What kinds of RAMdisks can be set up on the Atari?
This section by Andreas Magenheimer. 8.10 Atari Ramdisks – An (incomplete) Overview: [This is version 2.10 from October 2003] Right from the start of the Atari 8-bit computer era in the late 70`s, Atari users wanted to have as much RAM as possible (or as their purse could afford). Having a 16k machine with a tape device was nice and cheap, but having full 48k or 64k and a floppy drive was much nicer (and very expensive). Thus many Atari users began to create selfmade RAM extensions and enhancements, just to save some money. Also a lot of firms provided extra RAM, RAM enhancements, RAM extensions and Ramdisks. Besides Atari there were (and still are) quite a lot of producers, manufacturers, distributors and authors of such RAM enhancements… This “short” and incomplete overview does not provide any docs or manuals, but gives some info about the various Ramdisks on the market. Since these notes are written by me, they will merely contain the information I have. And as you all can see –
