>Actually, I read someplace (after I posted this) that a P90 with 16 MB
>of RAM was comparable to a 45Mhz. Quadra 610. I'm quite sure that's
>what they said. How fast is that for a Mac, as I have no idea?
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Red October
>churchill@cybercom.net
>
>"Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on
>earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second
>is a cow that has been dropped out of a
>helicopter. How long, traveling at top speed,
>will it take the cow to travel 360 feet?"
> -Dave Barry Slept Here
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
As a long time MAC & PC user, the CPU rates stated here and elsewhere - at
least according to Speedometer 3.23 are fairly accurate - but other than
getting Speedometer, BinHex 5 and Compact Pro to work - I have not obtained a
a lot of success to get Programs to work right. Unfortunately for me, most of
the programs that I want to run require System 7 - and that functionality
(getting to run Sys 7 programs ) is not working 100 %. The program is
essentially emulating System 6.0.7 which Apple stopped shipping with their
computers over 3 years ago. I did get an old MAC chess program (Psion) to
play chess but only at the instant response level. The Speedometer indexes
increase roughly 25% in DOS mode over Win95 - and on my 90 mhz machine that
translated to a CPU index of 23 on Speedometer - roughly equalivent to a 25-30
mhz 68040. That index in quite impressive, the other indexes are nearly as
impressive compared to 'real' MAC. Considering that Apple has not assisted
these folks in any way - this is an impressive piece of software.
The software runs without any control panels or inits - a 'real' mac user has
many of these little programs at the tip of their finger tips - and of course
it's not multi-processing aware - to run two applications; you must run it
under windows and start it twice. So it really doesn't have the feel of a
MAC - but hey - it plays that little Risk game like a champ.
Mike
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Hello,
I have written a BIOS patch for S3-based cards which sets the
overscan color to ffh (instead of 0) whenever a VESA mode change
occurs. This should get rid of that annoying white border when
using the VESA 2.0 display. This is a 1k TSR.
LOAD IT AFTER YOU LOAD THE VESA 2.0 EXTENSIONS (it might not
work otherwise).
I have also placed on the FTP site a FREEWARE VESA 2.0 extension
for S3 cards written by Dietmar Meschede. This seems to work as
well as UniVBE in Executor -- and it's FREE!
Get these at: ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/coicles/programs/
S3os.exe -- The overscan patch TSR
S3os.txt -- A readme file for this patch.
S3vbe301.zip -- VBE 2.0 extensions from Dietmar Meschede
If you have questions or comments, please email me at
coicles@best.com
This patch also works with ARK logic based cards. Please let
me know if you try this on another chipset and it works.
I am still uncertain whether ffh is the correct overscan color
-- it seems to work (it gets rid of the border, but if this