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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2091 / A2630 Prolems
Message-ID: <9452@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Jan 90 20:44:37 GMT
References: <8636@stiatl.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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in article <8636@stiatl.UUCP>, jer@stiatl.UUCP (John Ramspott) says:

> I too have noticed the problem with QMouse locking up the system when I do
> multiple button clicks, especially when I am using the "shift-click" method
> to copy multiple files from one window to another. The problem is with the
> A2630. 

A program that out and out fails, which sounds like what's happening with your
QMouse, the best bet is that the program has an 020/030 compatibility bug.

>    I hope someone figures out the problem with Pro Page since I was thinking
> about buying it now that I have more memory and processing power.

ProPage 1.2 and 1.3 works just fine on an A2630.  I've been using ProPage quite
extensively for the last two months on two separate machines.  I suspect the
reported problems were due to a bogus Agnus chip.

>   All in all, I am pleasantly surprised at how much software works on the
> '030 board, including the old music software. Games get zonked something
> awful, but I play those on the 1000.

Actually, I've had no problems whatsoever with games.  It probably depends
alot on which ones you play.  "Dungeon Master" and "Blockout" work perfectly.
Some of the older games have trouble on the '030, but some older games also 
have trouble with 1.2, Fast memory, etc.  There's no reason 99% of the 
software out there shouldn't work; most of the guidelines for CPU compatibility
were out before the first Amiga shipped to the public, and the few remaining
guidelines were covered in detail at the Washington DC DevCon a few years
back as well as in AmigaMail.  Any recent program that has problems on the
'020 or '030 does so only because the programmers ignored proper Amiga 
programming procedures.

> John Ramspott						gatech!stiatl!jer
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