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From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FA/18 Flight Sim Multitasks on A-3000
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.151720.194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 6 Mar 91 02:32:25 GMT
References: <521@cronos.metaphor.com>
Organization: Chem Dept, U of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <521@cronos.metaphor.com>, djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
> 1) Install Bob Dinnerman's "FA/18 Flight Interceptor" on your hard disk.
> 2) newcli aux:
> 3) Changetaskpri the aux cli to 10.
> 4) Run FA/18 from a different CLI.
> 
> What do you know, the thing RUNS and RUNS WELL. The game doesn't run too
> fast, crash on the A-3000's high memory or lock up. In fact, most CLI
> commands make little impact on the performance of the game. Amazing!

Actually, there's a 'debugging option' in Falcon Mission 2 (from
spectrum holobyte) that lets you do the same thing - I can only
presume it was left in as SH used it whilst ironing the bugs out 
of the game. With the debug option enabled, you can merrily 
multi-task on and 030 machine (it's too slow to be useful on a 68000
though) - a really good way to freak people out.

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