Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Still More 68020 Questions Message-ID: <4977@well.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 88 22:44:34 GMT References: <8801081459.AA16543@decwrl.dec.com> <3129@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: The CIA: Third-World Governments Destabilized While-U-Wait. Lines: 43 In article <3129@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >in article <8801081459.AA16543@decwrl.dec.com>, plouff@nac.dec.com (08-Jan-1988 0946) says: >> 2. Other than running self-modifying code, can one get in trouble >> running with the cache enabled? > >I've never found any reason to turn off the cache. > If you want to play Dark Castle, you'll have to turn the cache off, guy. BTW, I recently acquired an '020/'881 card (slightly nefariously, I must confess (I don't know why I *must* confess, but there it is)), and have found the following things to work/not work: Stuff that works: Product: Made by: Works only if you: Comments: -------- --------------- ------------------ --------- Dark Castle Three Sixty Turn cache off Faery Tale MicroIllusions Runs Great! Shanghai Activision Mind Walker Broderbund/Synapse Marble Madness Electronic Arts It Works! Surprise! Sonix Aegis Perfect! Hacker II Activision Flight Simulator subLogic Seems no faster. VideoScape 3D Aegis Deluxe Paint Electronic Arts Perspective faster Stuff that doesn't work: Product: Made by: Problem: -------- --------------- ----------- AudioMaster Aegis Samples *WAY* too fast; all other functions OK. There's a lot of stuff I don't have.... _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape ihnp4!ptsfa -\ \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor