10.5 Gizmo Ram

Ram Gizmo Atari Falcon

I found some words to the Ram Gizmo in comp.sys.atari.st

I had a Ram Gizmo that I bought from Chro-Magic, and I installed 4 4-meg SIMMs, rated at 80ns for a 16 meg total. This worked fine until I had Nemesis installed. Nemesis at low speed worked fine, but whenever I would run it at high speed, I would get artifacting in icons and window sliders, etc, etc,...also whenever I viewed pictures such as JPEG's/GIFs, it would cause pixel breakup. Some programs seemed to be unstable as well. Titan Design says that this is a sure sign that your Ram board isn't keeping up. They recommend a Ram board that uses 72-pin SIMMs with a speed rating of 60ns... Thats what I'm goin to, very shortly. :)

From: thechyld@pcc-uky.campus.mci.net (Ronald J. Hall)

A couple of people seemed to have some problems. I used my Gizmo with Nemesis without problem. We decided it might have been the simm speed that was in use. I used 4-4mb 60ns Toshiba 8 chip simms.

From: mgrove@.ridgecrest.ca.us (M.Grove)

Most of Falcon Memoryboards are have a nice Plug & Play handling
Anybody can fit a new Memoryboard by him self

Watch for the current Board instructions or following the next
five simple steps to fit a new board to your machine

Step 1

Switch Power to OFF, remove all current connections Turn your Falcon with the Keyboardside on a Table Remove the Screws as describe in Open Case Do not remove the screws for the Floppy device! Dismantle you Falcon F030 as describe in Open Case
 

Step 2

First, touch the outer GND Rail by an finger tip! Remove the original Falcon 4 MB Memoryboard while lift the hole board straight from the mainboard Do not lift the board sidewards
 
Watch out for static energie!
 

Step 3

Depack your new Memoryboard, save the antistatic material Put the old board into the antistatic material Insert one or more Simm Modules with no parity and 60nS as describe in the board instructions 60nS Modules are needed for ALL Falcon Ram Boards!
 
A Ram module works only in ONE direction! Also PS2-Modules Watch for the 'SnapIn' noise of the Simm Module
 

Step 4

Insert the new Board to the Memory Expanisonsport Watch out to fit it exactly to the Pins from the Mainboard Have a look from all sides to the Board!! If you found all Mainboard pins are have a correct direction to the connector of the Memoryboard, press with your flat hand the hole Memoryboard in the direction thru the Mainboard. The Memoryboard will slip a half inch in the direction to the Mainboard, not more!
 

Step 5

Connect the Keyboard, Monitor, and your Mouse to the Falcon Have a look to the Control Panel 'Systeminfo' after switch on With a Screen Resolution of 640x400x16 and some .ACCs and Autofolder Software you must find more as 12421852 Bytes free in your Display.
 
Remember: 2MB of the 16Mb is waste by the Falcon (MMU) Memory Logic :/
 
Switch OFF, remove all Connectors and close the Case as describe in Open Case