Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!vertigo!rusty From: rusty@vertigo.UUCP (M.W.HADDOCK) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Piggyback CPU boards Message-ID: <183@vertigo.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 15:07:15 GMT References: <2118@crash.cts.com> <36064@sun.uucp> Reply-To: rusty@vertigo.UUCP (91341-M.W.HADDOCK) Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories Lines: 29 Summary: Try Marble Madness In article <36064@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <2118@crash.cts.com> spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce) writes: >>A friend of mine added a 68020/68881 board to his Amiga 500. All of the games >>that we tried broke. I don't know whether this is because of the heavy I guess you didn't try Marble Madness.... I play it on my CSA '020. The '020 actually makes the game playable and ==VERY== responsive - even by TWO people and then it's still got some CPU to spare!!! And no, I play from a Marauder backup but I haven't moved the thing to RAM yet. >>copy-protection on the software, or what, but it has discouraged me from even >>considering a board of this type. > >So the bottom line is if you just want to play games >an '020 is not for you. It does however make compiles go faster. Maybe I'm not much of a game player but I'd try the game on an '020 first before saying "pphhht" to it. Compiles with Manx go REALLY fast especially when everything's in RAM. I've never seen a compiler move that quick b'fore. Cache off, -Rusty- -- Rusty Haddock {{uunet!likewise!}cbosgd,rutgers!moss}!vertigo!rusty AT&T-IS Consumer Products Laboratories - Human Factors Laboratory Holmdel, New Joysey 07733 (201) 834-1023 -- Being schizophrenic is better than living alone. --