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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Falcon - anyone gotten it to work yet on a 3000?
Message-ID: <21922@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 25 May 91 04:48:36 GMT
References: <17161@chopin.udel.edu> <1991May23.205315.9826@coplex.uucp> <1991May24.042047.26768@news.stolaf.edu> <17187@chopin.udel.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <17187@chopin.udel.edu> sanders@chopin.udel.edu (Robert M Sanders) writes:

>   I've gotten some GOOD news since I posted this plea earlier.  I also
>called Spectrum Holobyte and was told the following:
> 
>	1) version 1.2 does run on the 3000
>	2) version 1.1 *should*

>   Since I called SH, I received mail from Dean Brooks (dean@coplex.uucp)
>which got Falcon 1.1 to run on my Ami (3000 25/50 6 megs ram and 2.03) 
>under workbench 1.3.  As follows:
>
>1.  Installing Falcon onto the hard drive (optional, I guess)
>2.  Turn off the memory caching.  (i.e. "cpu nocache" from the CLI)

	Correct.  Falcon was among the many games tested for compatibility
with 2.0, and I made certain SH (in particular Marisa Ong, "nineteen" on
BIX) had up-to-date versions of 2.0 and knew of all 2.0/A3000 issues.  One
difference between 1.3 and 2.0 on the A3000 (and A2500/030) was that 2.0 was
turning on all the caches, while 1.3 turns on only the instruction cache.
The next version of 2.0 won't do that because of old hurricane '030 boards -
unless you set up page tables to make chip regs IO space, turning on the
data cache will kill them.  SetPatch will turn on the caches, and will
have a "NOCACHE" keyword or some such.

	I spent quite a few hours playing mission disk 2 on my test 3000,
and splashed quite a few migs, tanks, bridges, etc.  Good game, and I believe
it's coming out for CDTV as well.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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