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From: gimme@solan1.solan.unit.no (Olav Gimmestad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: A3000 compatability
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Date: 19 Sep 90 11:23:50 GMT
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|> Doug D.In article <10511@hubcap.clemson.edu>, ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (douglas m dyer) writes:
|> 
|> I am looking at purchasing a 3000.  How many games (popular) will run (or
|> won't run) on the 3000?
|> 
|> 
|> Doug D.

I do not have a A3000 but I know that very few popular games will work on it.  The reason is that the games are BAD programmed.  They use software-loops like:   		

loop:
   dbra d0,loop 

and this loop will NOT cause the same time delay on a computer with 68030 prosessor as on an "normal" 68000. Some programs do also jump directly into ROM and when a new ROM appears like V2.0 the adress has changed, so the program jumps out in space...
I have tested all my own games on a 68030 (A2630) since I am a "flight simulator" I hoped they would run faster. I have also seen some programs tested on a 68030 and this is the conclusion:

Interceptor	-	Works	...extremely fast graphics...good programming
F16 Falcon	- 	Works (sometimes) seems buggy...sometimes my joystick 		 
			will not work forwards
FIGHTER BOMBER	-	Does NOT work ..if you trie,you jumps into the programmers
			own debugger...displaying all registers.
Flight Simulator II-	Works(This one is too old...)
GUNSHIP		-	Works(but where are the Amiga graphicss...)
Red Storm Rising-	Works(also with harddisk&FFS)
Retailiator	-	Crashes

I have heard that DOS-2-DOS not works on an 68030.

These are all the games I have so I cant't say more about games, but I think that in general most games are BAD programmed.
I can NOT understand why developers of simulators do not test their programs on a faster prosessor. That is what I call beeing lazy.!

					Olav Gimmestad