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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-
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