Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!tekig!phils From: phils@tekig.TEK.COM (Phil Staub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Piggyback CPU boards Message-ID: <662@tekig.TEK.COM> Date: 23 Dec 87 07:01:29 GMT References: <2118@crash.cts.com> <486@.UUCP> <2086@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: phils@tekig.UUCP (Phil Staub) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 23 Keywords: 68010 68020 privileged instruction In article <2086@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes: .I know that most of the 68020 boards for the 1000 and 2000 fix the problem .with the privileged instructions, but if that's the problem, worry not (yet). .There is a hack. Lurking out there somewhere in Netland and BBSland (but does .anyone out there remember where?) is a file describing a do-it-yourself 68010 ^^^^^^ Yup, it's called DeciGel by Scott Turner and it's on FishDisk #18. Also, I used the concept in a program I send to the {sources|binaries} newsgroups about a week ago. It should show up any day now. Look for it as PSTransformer. .upgrade. It included a software "wedge," a small assembler program which .hunted down and intercepted the nasty instructions... May not help with .copy protected programs, though... . -- Jim . cthulhu@athena.mit.edu Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub "I do NOT approve. I merely said I UNDERSTAND." tektronix!tekigm2!phils - Spock phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM