rg.jones@rogers.com wrote:
Last year I picked up a nice IIc package deal. Included was a 8Mhz zip
chip. At the time the guy ran the diags for me and they checked out
okay. We really didn't run anything to demo the speed so I didn't think
much of it.
I was running Contiki today testing some stuff and at one point both
the IIc and my IIgs (with a stock transwarp-gs) had the screen saver
come on. I immediatly noticed a big difference in that the IIc was a
lot slower.
It's fairly understandable that a stock transwarp gs would
significantly outperform a zipchip. While the clock speeds are similar,
the caching arrangement on the transwarp is vastly superior.
I search around and found the Zip utilities that came with the system.
The system tests still pass and and software reports that it can turn
the chip on and off. I see no difference at all when it is supposed to
be on or off.
Very, very strange. There should be a lot of noticeable differences
with the Zip enabled, from higher-pitched noises to games running
stupidly fast.