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- From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP G_Force Boards
- Message-ID: <bmccnnll.712279442@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:24:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.072158.29903@walter.cray.com> <1992Jul27.150704.13835@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
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- In <1992Jul27.150704.13835@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
-
- >I don't have one of these cards yet, but most people who do say
- >that they never (almost?) use 68000 mode. Under what
- >circumstances would one want to use 68000 mode?
-
- Games, or the occasional demo. Most of which end up getting run off floppy.
- (You don't waste valuable HD space on badly-written 68000-only programs, do
- you?)
-
- I would never try to use my normal system in 68000 fallback mode. It's just
- too slow. It takes twice as long to boot from HD than it does in '030 mode,
- and windows move 5 to 8 times slower, which is quite frankly - unbearable!
-
- Barry.
-