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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SoftPC for the Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <12295@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 4 Sep 90 19:14:08 GMT
References: <4243@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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In article <4243@crash.cts.com>, hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes:
>   In response to not being able to run Transformer on the 3000:  I have a
> 2500/030 that I upgraded to with C='s 030 board and wanted to see if the
> Transformer would still work.  Well,  it didn't (in 030 mode).  I turned off
> the cache's via SetCPU and it still didn't work.  i disables all fast RAM and
> the extra 512K chip RAM, (I have 1 meg Agnus), and it still didn't work.  All
> i got was a blue screen.  So I went to 68000 mode and that didn't work either.
> But.... I Disabled all fast RAM *and* the extra Chip RAM so all my system had
> was 512K, and then it worked.  People have said that it doesn't work with the
> 2000's even with a 68000.  Try using nofastmem, and a program I got from my
> A-Max disk called KillChip, which disables the exra Chip RAM, adn then
> Transformer should work.

I also had to run KillChip on my A500 Rev5, FatA, 1mb chip, 2 mb fast. 
Nofastmem is not needed. Transformer can't cope with the FatA, as a friend
has a near serial no A500 to mine which hasn't got FatA and he can run it
without killchip.

Regards Alan