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 Subject: RE: motorola 68000 series
Author: Stone (host62-6-103-236.dialup.lineone.co.uk)
Date:   04-05-2001 12:15

In what way is it an 'upgrade'? Faster? More advanced instructions?
To replace the 68K it would have to be instruction-compatible unless you were planning on never playing any official Jag games again ;)

To tell the truth, it wouldn't do a whole lot of good to most games. The 68K is not the main processor, it just boots the machine and reads the keypads (by default), although some lily-livered developers wrote the entire game for it because they couldn't face learning the Jaguar DSP and gfx chips ;) (Flashback, I think).

It might also mess up some games using the 68K for timing, although I'm not sure about this.

On balance, it's probably not a good idea. Although if you want to try it and tell us what happened, go right ahead.

Stone

 Topics Author  Date
  motorola 68000 series new cocotero 02-23-2001 17:04 
   RE: motorola 68000 series new someguy 02-23-2001 19:22 
   RE: motorola 68000 series new The Helper 02-23-2001 19:22 
    RE: motorola 68000 series new AlexHolland(Thalion Webshrine) 02-28-2001 02:55 
     RE: motorola 68000 series new RxT 03-18-2001 20:34 
      RE: motorola 68000 series new TXG 04-04-2001 16:47 
       RE: motorola 68000 series new someguy 04-05-2001 00:27 
       RE: motorola 68000 series  Stone 04-05-2001 12:15 
        RE: motorola 68000 series new The Helper 04-06-2001 04:01 
         RE: motorola 68000 series new Stone 04-06-2001 21:27 
          RE: motorola 68000 series new The Helper 04-07-2001 03:59 
      RE: motorola 68000 series new Robert 04-07-2001 22:12 
       RE: motorola 68000 series new Stone 04-08-2001 12:26 
      RE: motorola 68000 series new AlexHolland(Thalion Webshrine) 05-07-2001 01:19 

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