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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders
- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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- Message-ID: <H.ea.cJJJh82NisI@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Subject: Re: 16MHz & GEnie
- Keywords: 16Mhz GENIE
- References: <1992Nov16.143321@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- <1992Nov20.020401.12428@admiral.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:05:24 -0800
- Lines: 26
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- In <1992Nov20.020401.12428@admiral.uucp> dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov16.143321@cs.bham.ac.uk> dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley) writes:
- >>Two questions...
- >>
- >>1> Anyone any ideas on getting my Mega/STE into 16MHz mode before
- >>running games which boot from the bootsector?
-
- >Here's an idea. Forget it. Most games "break the rules" and are so dependent on
- >the system timing of an 8Mhz ST, that they just won't run in 16Mhz.
-
- As i have an ADSpeed with an external switch, I'd like to point out
- that most of the incompatabilities tend to be in custom disk load
- routines, so with a switchable processor, a lot of games that won't load
- at 16 will play at 16. You sghould see Vroom at 16mhz. Blows away some
- dedicated arcade machines.
- A local store claims to have worked out a way to wire a Mega STe
- with a switch, but they won't say how they do it. Maybe someone with
- access to the circuit diagrams would be able to figure it out and ost a
- text file. One drawback, from what I'm told. If the switch is installed,
- you lose the ability to software switch the speed, unlike the ADSpeed.
-
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