Do you have a spare couple of hours?
It's been yonks since I posted in our Software sections, so here is a utility that is the bee's knees. Yet Another Atari RAM Test, by Christian Zietz, rolls through a number of intense tests that execute algorithms to help diagnose potential problems with our beloved Atari computers. Let's hope it finds nothing!
I won't pretend to understand its wizardry, but I love utilities like this. I want my ST healthy, so I've had it running for what feels like a lifetime, and it's not (yet) found any errors. This is excellent news, but I'm thinking that this program could be helpful to anyone experiencing weird anomalies or peculiar crashes.
I enjoy finding programs like this lurking in the ST archives, and I hope YAART proves helpful if you're suffering from any hardware problems. The download comes ready to support the ST/STe/TT/Falcon, but take a moment to read the text file and boot cleanly with as much spare RAM as possible (read YAART.TXT)
I hope you have healthy Atari computers? Let me know in the comments below. Good luck!!
Useful utility to check the memory health. Stf memory modules are getting more and more difficult to find. Fortunately st computers are sturdy.
ReplyDeleteI agree. In the end, I got bored after about an hour. Figured my STe was nice and healthy heh
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