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From: johns@pro-graphics.cts.com (John Silvia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: PowerMonger & 030
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Date: 16 Dec 90 11:56:30 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from visconti@gecko.cis.ohio-state.edu

Powermonger does not work MY accelerated Amiga!
 
I have a buddy with a 3000 and it worked okay, but for some reason it didn't
like my A2000 with the A2630.  It could be that it doesn't know to do a
"fastmem first" or something since I have fast-fast and slow-fast along with
chip memory, but if that's not it, then it just doesn't like the 030 on
non-Amiga 3000 machines.
 
The graphics are nice too.  Fantastic is more the word for it!
 
The extra windows that popup like that are a programmers bug that goes back to
the days of the TRS-80 Model I.  Keybounce.  When you click the mouse, a
switch is closed right?  What exactly happens during a 100ms switch closing? 
Well if you placed a mouse button on a scope, and watched it closing at some
really high sample speed, then you would probably see a few pulses as the
switch gets proximity, initial contact, full contact, and then resting
contact.  The old TRS-80 Keyboard had this problem, and telling the OS to slow
down the reading of the switches was the key.  More than likely they are "over
reading" the mousebutton and making things messy.

-- John Silvia

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