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- From: daeron@horus.co.jyu.fi (Aki Laukkanen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: SS Game Compatibility?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 08:24:13 GMT
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- >>An '040 program will still run on a '030, wouldn't it? I don't *think* the
- >>'040 has any new instructions (apart from FPU and MMU), it's more to do
- >>with optimisation.
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- >No. A 040-program will NOT run on anything less than a 68040. FPU, MMU and
- >Supervisor commands has been changed.
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- Personally, I'd had a hard time making a program 040 only. Normal programs
- don't touch MMU or use supervisor mode and infact FPU lacks some of 882's
- instructions (the transcadental instructions) and not the other way around.
- There's not much new instructions either and even fewer which have any generic
- use.
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