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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A-Max and accelerators
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Date: 19 Apr 91 19:43:06 GMT
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In article <91108.204931JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>I just bought an A2630, mostly to speed up A-Max.  While A-Max does
>go faster now, "MacEnvy," a PD system configuration info program
>claims that my "Mac Plus" has a 68020 CPU.  I have always found
>MacEnvy to be so correct in the past that I reopened my machine
>and looked at the 2630 to be sure it was a 68030 (and indeed it was.)
>In addition, MacEnvy claims I only have 3975K while my Amiga has 7
>megs of RAM (4 on the 2630, 2 on the 2091, and 1 on the motherboard.)
>
>So here is the question:  Why does A-Max not seem to know what CPU
>and RAM my Amiga has?  At the very least, has anyone else had this
>problem?  I'm running A-Max 2.06, Mac System 6.0.5, and MacEnvy
>1.3 (I think - it is new enough to recognize the IIci, so it must
>be pretty new.)

I've noticed this as well.  I have an A3000-25/50 and MacEnvy also reports
it as having a 68020 (Mac System 6.0.1).  MacEnvy only looks at the
environment variables set by the system (a.k.a., AMaxII,) and I believe
AMaxII is deliberately lying to enhance compatibility.  I wouldn't worry
about the CPU being wrong.

As far memory goes, I think there's a upper limit to the amount of memory
handled depending on the version of the ROM/System, but Finder correctly
reports the 4.6 Mb available on my system (w/a 1.2 Mb RAM disk in addition.)

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