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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SoftPC for the Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.202236.6536@agora.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 20:22:36 GMT
References: <4243@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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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.

	Phil Staub's PSTransformer front end (Hi Phil!) allows you to run
Transformer (either 1.0 or 1.2) on most Amigas. I know it works on a 2000
with the 2630 installed, although you do have to turn off FastROM and all
cacheing. On the 3000, it's a little hard to trun off the MMUed ROM, and I
believe that's why I can't get it to work. It comes up and accesses the PC
disk, but just stops after a bit...
	Note that even in 68030 mode, Transformer just can't be called very
'fast'... :-} Although, it does a very good job of keeping up with 2400
baud modems now. :-}



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