echadez@isis.cs.du.edu (Edward Vincent Chadez) (06/06/91)
Has anyone experienced any hardware compatibaltiy problems with the Mega- midget racer (from CSA)? Furthermoor, does anyone know of any hard drives/ controlers that wouldn't work with the MMR? I have a two year old RLL drive and a controller that I have reason to suspect won't work with the MMR. I know that the HD/Controller won't work with the '020 miget racer. *sigh*... Any advice is appreciated. As usual, thanks in advance. -Ed -- ---//---------------------------------------------------------------------- \X/ echadez@isis.cs.du.edu Edward Chadez Amiga500-------------------------------------------------------------------
davem@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin) (06/07/91)
So far, I've had no compatibility probems with my Mega-Midget Racer on anything I've tried it with. It worked just fine with my old Expansion Technologies Flash Card controller and is currently working with a GVP Series II controller. The MMR has also been very compatible with memory boards (I don't have 32 bit ram for the MMR yet :-( ) and software. Only a couple of European demos won't run in 68030 mode but by switching down to 68000 mode, they run fine. I tried a 68020 Midget-Racer from CSA and it would work with either the Flash Card or the 8-up board but not both. The tech rep a CSA said the Midget Racer was not terribly compatible with most add-on stuff but that the Mega-Midget Racer so far has worked with virtually everything in their (CSA's) testing. Some of the games I play will display nasty lines and garbage on the screen at times but I've never really done any back-to-back testing with the 68000/68030 modes to determine the cause. The garbage I'm seeing may well be from the games being run from a hard drive and not the floppies they were intended to be run from. Even without the 32 bit ram, the 25mhz MMR makes a noticible difference in overall speed. Hope this is helpful.... davem