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From: sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Idiot Savant )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68000 specific program?
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Date: 20 May 91 02:09:23 GMT
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rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang) writes:

>To those of you who wonder about the question on the 68000 specific
>instructions...it isn't because *I* want to write the program...I 
>someone explained to me that an old game of his won't run on the newer
>machines, giving a message that it requires the old 68000 chip.

>Sort of didn't make sense...I suspected the ROMs or System...

Usually its the Sound Manager Stuff or an absolute requirement for
specific memory addresses being free that seems to hang up all the games
I loved on the SE and had to dump when I upgraded to a IIci.
(Reach for the Stars, The Ancient Art of War, Dark Castle...)
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