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From: iann@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Ian Nicholls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: 68010 and bootable disks
Message-ID: <1250@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>
Date: 2 May 91 06:57:33 GMT
Organization: Coles Myer Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
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I have a couple of games which don't like my new 68010 chip at all.  In
particular, SWIV (Silkworm four), my current favourite.

The problem is:  I bought the 68010 chip for my B2000 recently, and,
using Decigel, programs under AmigaDOS work OK.  It's when I start using
copy-protected games such as SWIV that things go wrong.

As soon as SWIV looks at the disk, the machine guru's with a "line F
exception."  This leads me to think the problem is in the boot sector, or
in the game loading program.

The shop I bought the game from said they couldn't help me except to
downgrade the machine back to a 68000.  The game designers are all the way over
in England, so I don't really want to bother them if there is an easier
solution.

Is there a way of inserting the Decigel exception handler into the operating
system before the boot sector takes over?  It occurs to me it may be
possible, but being a recent convert to the Amiga, I lack the knowledge.

p.s.  I know the Line F exception isn't the Privilege exception that I
      expected.  Is this significant?


Any help on this would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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