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- From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <71678@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:17:13 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov12.000037.27562@wuecl.wustl.edu><1992Nov13.221116.15921
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- >> Yet, Legends of Valour, a fast scrolling game does work. And doesn't
- >> blow away the OS.
- >
- > You miss a serious point here : most of the games break on the 4000
- > because of the instruction/data cache. Turn it off, and 80-90% or
- > your games will work again.
-
- No, in fact the cache only helped one game, and that game was SimCity.
- The copy protection used self-modifying code, and the caches seemed to
- put a kink in that scheme.
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- TomK@cup.portal.com
- Tom Krotchko
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