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From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Patton Vs. Rommel vs. MacII
Message-ID: <7161@apple.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 23:51:25 GMT
References: <6093@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <6093@cisunx.UUCP> jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Sullivan) writes:
>I talked to the people at Electronic Arts, and they told me that Patton vs
>Rommel was NOT mac II compatible.  Hmm.  The problem is that the II I'm
>getting is the 5M one.
>
>I don't think you can trick the II into thinking it is a 1M machine, because
>you had to move the 256K SIMMs to the second bank and put the 1M SIMMs in the
>low bank for the extra memory to be recognized, so where the 256K SIMMs are
>in a 1M machine is not where they are in a 5M machine.  Sigh...
>
>Anyone who REALLY knows what they're talking about, please correct me ;-)

Well, I know nothing about Patton vs. Rommel; but I'd imagine that the
problem runs much deeper than memory size (I'd guess that it works OK on
a 4M MacPlus).  You can't fool the Mac II into thinking it is 1M, but
you can fool everything that runs on it into thinking that.  Simply set your
RAM cache to 4096K.

						_emt