Here is a list of the games we have used on the Pc Card.
I have two Pc partitions (of 800K and 200K) - the larger one has Window's 95 on it and the smaller one has Windows of Workgroups but is mainly used for Dos gameplay.
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Game | Results |
Theme Park (Bullfrog) | DOS,works but no sound |
Transport Tycoon (PowerPlus) | DOS,works but no sound |
Star Command (GT Interactive) | Won't install has to be copied to the harddisc,works but no background music |
Star Control 3 (Warner Interactive) | DOS,works fine but slow on video sections |
Stars! (Empire) | Windows,works no problems |
Worms (Ocean) | DOS,works |
Discworld (Psygnosis) | DOS,works |
Discworld II (Psygnosis) | DOS,works - juddery sound |
Warcraft II (Blizzard Entertainment) | DOS,works and Level Editor works in Windows '95 |
Master of Orion II (Micro Prose) | DOS,works but poor video sections |
Klik &Play (Europress) | Windows,works |
Here are two lots of results I got using WinTune '95 on my system dated 29/07/97 and 27/09/97 on my larger Window's 95 partition.
I have an original 600 Risc PC ( the one with the added mini 16bit sound card ) which was first upgraded to an Arm 700. It has since beem upgraded further to a StrongArm running at 204 Mhz.
The system has a 2.1 Gig. SCSI harddrive, a double-speed SCSI CD Rom drive and 32+2 Mgs of Ram. I have a 586*100 uncached PC card with PC Pro and Windows '95.
I am using a 990Mb PC partition as Drive C and allocate 24Mg of Ram for the Card. The display for the card is set at 800 by 600 in 256 colours (Palette colours.) Suggested screen memory is 585Kb but I allocate all 2 Mb's although when these tests were run I kept to 1500 Kb.( For the first test I was using a SCSI I card by Castle Technology but by the second test this had beem upgraded to their SCSI II 'Storm' interface. )
Category | Result |
CPU type (reports) | CyrixDX (but is 586*100) |
Clock rate | 84 MHz |
Dhystone | 109 MIPS |
Whetstone | 36 MFLOPS |
Resolution | 800 by 600 |
Colo(u)r depth | 8 bpp |
Video speed | 2.7 MP/s |
C:\Cached speed | 5.6 MB/s |
C:\Uncached speed | 1 MB/s |
Installed RAM | 24 MB |
RAM Read avg. | 50 MB/s |
RAM Write avg. | 11 MB/s |
RAM Copy avg. | 7.8 MB/s |
Same system ( as above ) tested with the ONLY change being an upgraded SCSI interface.
I am now using a Castle Technology 32/16 'Storm' interface.
One other point - I ran the Wintune '95 test three times and each time there were small variations in the results - which I have averaged out in the list below.
Category | Results |
CPU type (reports) | Cyrix486DX (but is IBM 586*100) |
Clock rate | 84 Mhz |
Dhrystone | 111MIPS |
Whetstone | 32MFLOPS |
Resolution | 800*600 |
Colo(u)r depth | 8bpp |
Video speed | 2.7MP/s |
C:\Cached speed | 5.6MB/s |
C:\Uncached speed | 4.6MB/s |
Installed RAM | 24MB |
RAM Read avg. | 56MB/s |
RAM Write avg. | 11MB/s |
RAM Copy avg. | 8.7MB/s |
The faster throughput of the SCSI II showing on the 'uncached speed' hopefully will help speed up disc-intensive tasks.
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