karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (05/20/89)
I am having a weird problem with SetCPU 1.4 and an A2620 with 2 meg of 32-bit RAM. There is also an A2090 and an ASDG 8-MI with 4 MB of RAM in the system (a 2000, but you guessed that, didn't you...) If I do the 'setcpu fastrom,' things will work OK for a while, 'rombash' will tell me that it's a bit more than twice as fast, but after a while, the system will weird out and start autorepeating characters that I type, so if I type 'setcpu,' I might get 'sssssssssssssseeeetttttttttccccppppuuuuuu.' Any ideas? Incidentally, on compiles of a fairly big program of mine (about twenty separately compiled source files), with *everything* coming out of RAD: (executables, source, libraries, includes), I see a performance improvement of 2.2X over running in 68000 mode. Is that what one would expect and/or are there any other methods by which one can improve the performance when using the '020? Not that I'm complaining... Oh yeah, the '20 makes playing anim files a lot more enjoyable because the number of timing misses and max deltas are much lower. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "Nobody hipped me to that, dude." -- Pee Wee -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) (05/22/89)
In article <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > I am having a weird problem with SetCPU 1.4 and an A2620 with 2 meg of > 32-bit RAM. There is also an A2090 and an ASDG 8-MI with 4 MB of RAM > in the system (a 2000, but you guessed that, didn't you...) > > If I do the 'setcpu fastrom,' things will work OK for a while, 'rombash' > will tell me that it's a bit more than twice as fast, but after a while, > the system will weird out and start autorepeating characters that I type, > so if I type 'setcpu,' I might get 'sssssssssssssseeeetttttttttccccppppuuuuuu.' > > Any ideas? This is a problem on A2000's with original keyboards (the ones with the small function keys). Dave H is/was working on a new setcpu which would patch the system to keep this from happening, but I don't know what the status of this is. > -- > -- uunet!sugar!karl | "Nobody hipped me to that, dude." -- Pee Wee > -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018 Dave -- Dave Thomas, Commodore Amiga Test Engineering UUCP ...{allegra,rutgers}!cbmvax!thomas
karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (05/23/89)
In article <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com>, I asked about problems with my keyboard strangely autorepeating when I do a 'setcpu fastrom' In article <6944@cbmvax.UUCP>, thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) writes: > This is a problem on A2000's with original keyboards (the ones with the > small function keys). Dave H is/was working on a new setcpu which would > patch the system to keep this from happening, but I don't know what the > status of this is. Thanks. It is indeed an early keyboard -- it has shrinkwrap over a splice between the keboard cable and the DIN connector. I followed up rather than replied because my info confirms Dave's remarks and I thought it might be of interest to some other "early" 2000 owners. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "Woof!" -- Free Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (05/25/89)
In Message <3858@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >Thanks. It is indeed an early keyboard -- it has shrinkwrap over a splice >between the keboard cable and the DIN connector. ^^^^^^ Are you sure its a splice and not another example of our goverment (FCC) trying to keep your TV and RADIO working? There should be one on the tail of your mouse, no? It seems that these are poping up on computers (MS-DOS) more and more, but they are installed by other methods that makes for a quality look rather than that cheap and shitty 'spliced look' used by Commodore. (Just my personal thoughts) Sneakers -- ___ Dan "Sneakers" Schein //// BERKS AMIGA BBS Sneakers Computing //// 80+ Megs of software & messages 2455 McKinley Ave. ___ //// 12/2400 Baud - 24 Hrs West Lawn, PA 19609 \\\\ //// 215/678-7691 \\\\//// {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers