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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: SS Game Compatibility?
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 20:15:29 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- Aki Laukkanen (daeron@horus.co.jyu.fi) wrote:
- :
- : >No. A 040-program will NOT run on anything less than a 68040. FPU, MMU and
- : >Supervisor commands has been changed.
- :
- : 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.
-
- Having recently seen Motorola's own documentation, there are several '040
- general purpose instructions - one of the most useful is Move16, which
- moves memory 16 bytes at a time.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-