Re: Whats your GS setup like?

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dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>My IIgs...
>
>ROM-01, stock CPU
>  (I have a TransWarp GS around here someplace, but it is flaky...not
>   stable...I'd like to have the speed, but not if it makes the machine crash)

The CPU on the TransWarp might be failing.  Not as surprising
as it may sound because the CPU chip in my Windows PC did
the same at a certain clock speed, so I had to slow it down.

Try swapping it with a new 65C816.  Not only is a fresh chip likely
to cure the problem, but the "new" 14Mhz production version is
a much better design.  You should be able to change an oscillator
on your TransWarp, once you have the new chip, to make the
TWGS go at 12.5Mhz.  I did it.  It is great!

You'll like the GS Finder a lot better once the windows start
opening and closing as fast as a Windows PC or Mac unit (I'm
not saying that a TWGS will make the GS run as fast as a
modern Win PC/Mac in terms of CPU speed, only that it makes
the GUI itself in the Finder operate as fast, which in the end is
all that really matters...you know, important stuff like how fast
windows open and close that contribute to the feel of speed).