| From: | Shane Ponting |
| Date: | 21 Aug 2001 at 19:50:38 |
| Subject: | Re: BPPC problem |
> Meanwhile I have played with the BPPC startup menu, and finally I have
> managed to boot with the Maprom feature.....but I had to set the checksum
> patch, what is it?
> Without setting that patch, red screen always.
I have no idea what all that stuff is, I guess MacPatch is like ShapeShifter.
> To my surprise running P96speed, I get great increase in gfx card operations
> (1000op/s!), but on intuition I get a little loss (10-20 op/s)....I
> believed mapping rom in ram could bring increases in intuition....
It's all very messy, it'd be good to have an accelerator where you could have a 100mhz ROM chip on-board as having the OS on ROM is much better than in system memory.
> I noticed I have now 63M, so 512k are for rom and it is ok.....but the
> other 512k? ppc.lib isn't flushed from memory after running Bppcfix?
Theres are stuff in there as well, another way to reduce mem is to remove the resident 040 lib as well and use the MMUlib distribution.
> Corrado
>
Setup:
A1200:BlizzardPPC:603p@266Mhz/68040@30Mhz
192mb of 60ns RAM (Set to 66.6~mhz)
Fast SCSI-II Controller (Overclocked)
-Quantum Atlas II 4.3gig HD 7200RPM
-Mustek 12000CX 1200DPI Scanner
-32x NEC SCSI CDROM Drive
-2xWrite 4xRead HP 4020i CD-R Drive
-2xWrite 6xRead HP 6020 CD-R Drive
8mb BVision GFX Card (Permedia 2)(Overclocked)