Whatever I do my Amiga seems to run out of memory. Is there anything I can do to cure this?

If you are using the standard A1200 2Mb system with no Fast RAM the most obvious solution is to buy an accelerator or more memory. These retail from £20 to £250 for most 68k accelerators and RAM cards and will dramatically improve your Amigas performance. If you already have this then should look on your hard drive for files such as disk caching. These may speed up disk access but it is done at the expense of memory. Examine your machine to see if you have any programs running, such as PowerCache. Also remove any RAD disks, these are virtual disks that take up 900k of your Chip or Fast RAM. Check your startup-sequence and WBStartup for any programs that may be executed and remove them if necessary. As standard preferences are stored in the ENV directory. Have a look in the drawer on your hard drive (not the one stored in RAM) and delete references to any deleted programs. Alternatively, download the ENV handler, HappyENV, available on Aminet.

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