Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!tron
From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Query about Falcon on a Mac SE/30
Keywords: Does it work?  How Fast?
Message-ID: <1012@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 89 02:51:02 GMT
References: <7093@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <7093@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>When I bought Falcon for my Mac Plus, I found it too sluggish for my tastes,
>and put it in my Mac Software Basement.  Now that I'm getting a Mac SE/30,
>two questions:
>
>1)  Falcon 2.0 mentions that it runs on a Mac II, but only if you use the
>    Apple Video Card and have the colors set to 2.  Has anyone run it on a
>    Mac SE/30 with success?  I was wondering if it was tailored to deal with
>    something other than a 68000 *and* the standard 9-inch Apple screen.
>
>2)  If it does work... does it scream? (I hope, I hope...)

It should - Falcon 2.0 runs on a Mac II / IIx (it's been tested). And yes, on
a 32 bit machine IT SCREEAAAMMMSSSSSSS!!! YYAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Richard G. Brewer

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