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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Duesseldorf: personal impression of the TT(T)
Message-ID: <3076@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Sep 89 08:06:35 GMT
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In article <1585@laura.UUCP> atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne) writes:
>FlightSimulator does not run even on a ST with HyperCache. (16Mhz 68000)
>This is propably due to some timing loops which run too fast now.
>PC Ditto heavily depends on the 68000 processor and hardware. I'll be
>*very* surprised if it runs without problems.

If I remember correctly Sublogic wrote Flight Simulator to load at
an absolute address. That is why it breaks when you have any memory hungry
programs like caches already loaded. Slapped wrists to Sublogic.

>	Andreas Toenne
>	atoenne@unido.uucp

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