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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SetCPU 1.4 FASTROM option
Message-ID: <7082@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 02:36:30 GMT
References: <17261@louie.udel.EDU>
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in article <17261@louie.udel.EDU>, ewilts%Janus.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Ed Wilts - CandianOxy) says:

> Didn't somebody promise to post a list here a long time ago of titles that
> wouldn't run on 68020 boards?  Perhaps it's time somebody accumulated a list
> for all to look at before getting bit.  Possible work-arounds (such as
> nofastmem, nocache, etc) might be useful for people that add a 2620 (or
> similar) and find out that suddenly an important piece of software stops
> working.  Then somebody can take this list, publish it in a magzine and with
> a lot of luck, some publishers might even fix their code.  We'll all benefit in
> the end.

That's an excellent idea.  Now if only every software developer out there will
send ME one copy of each piece of software they make, so that I can test it
on '020 and even '030 systems, maybe we can get the ball boinging on this :-)

But seriously, if companies today are actually publishing software that won't
work with '020s or (say what!) expansion memory, I don't suppose they'd be
the ones sending in the software for such an examination.  What would be a good
general suggestion, though, would be for reviewers of any piece of software
to go over a system checklist:

	O	Works on minimal system (68000, 512K, 1 floppy)
	O	Works with fast memory
	O	Works from hard disk
	O	Works on 68020/68030
	O	Works with SetCPU CACHE FASTROM TRAP 0 on A2620/68030

You could probably get a few more added to the list.  That last one probably
stresses things as much as possible.  Which might be considered a good thing
to do if you have an eye toward 1.4 or A3000 compatibility.  Though beware:
"NewCLI" and "EndCLI" break with the SetCPU "TRAP 0" option (you can use the
equivalent commands under Bill Hawes' WShell for that setup...).

> Ed Wilts
> Sr. Systems Analyst, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd.
> Calgary, Alberta, Canada                 (403) 234-1007
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