pap4660%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (04/17/89)
I am considering to put a 68010 into my 1000. The questions I have is what will not work. What programs that do not use dos, use the commands that are supervisor commands in the 68010. Basically, I am trying to find out if it is worth it to change. Thanks, Patrick Patrick Palmer "dbx is not reality" uucp: !rochester!ritcv!pap4660 bitnet: pap4660@ritvaxc "Just librium and me and E.S.T. makes three" -David Bowie
sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) (04/20/89)
In article <1058@cs.rit.edu>, pap4660%ritcv@cs.rit.edu writes: > > I am considering to put a 68010 into my 1000. The questions I have is > what will not work. What programs that do not use dos, use the > commands that are supervisor commands in the 68010. Basically, I am > trying to find out if it is worth it to change. Any speedup is so subtle, I don't think anyone can notice. It's probably not worth the bother. But, for $20, I did it, and it works with most things. The most noticable improvement was with DMCS, which can now keep the screen updated with the music (without getting behind; if you have DMCS, you'll know what I mean). I suspect (and perhaps someone really knows :-) that the reason there's not much an advantage is that most things are simply waiting for you to do something, like, say, press a key, or depend on the Amiga hardware. One PD benchmark program rated my machine an "average" of 130% of a standard Amiga, if I recall correctly. (Clearly, the benchmark was a biased CPU test, since in no way do things seem 30% faster.) I've mostly found that a couple of games won't work with it. I use the 68010 without any patches or such. I have run across decigel, a program that can patch the system to trap the illegal instruction in case you have to run an offensive program (but of course, this method tends to fail miserably with games that don't allow multitasking). Others, like Transformer (imagine! C/A's own program [ok I know they only bought it, but still]) have to have their object code hacked (and there's a PD program to do that too). > > Thanks, > Patrick > > Patrick Palmer "dbx is not reality" > uucp: !rochester!ritcv!pap4660 bitnet: pap4660@ritvaxc > "Just librium and me and E.S.T. makes three" -David Bowie Gary "Why do I have a 68010?" Wolfe ..!uunet!hite386!tlvx!sysop