Re: More on RocketChipII

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <LxlQ8.66673$uX3.35871@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
>I installed the chip into a memory-expansion-ready (? PEEK(64447)=3) IIc and
>was NOT awestruck with the increase in speed.

I had one in a IIe once...it flew through everything.  PublishIt! 4 was one
program I used frequently that benefited from the faster speed.  I produced
the newsletter for the local Apple users' group with it.  When I took a
PostScript file generated by PublishIt! to school to crank out on a laser
printer, you couldn't have guessed by looking at it that I was using a IIe.
AppleWorks 3.0 also got a nice speed bump for working on large databases.

>I also ran Michael J. Mahon's Sound Editor (highly recommended!) and noted
>normal sounding playback of a digital clip, which I thought strange since
>Sound Editor requires that speaker accesses be slowed down in accelerated
>Apples.

Most accelerators drop the speed down to 1 MHz briefly while $C030 is
accessed, so that sounds will be more-or-less normal.  After a short
interval, the accelerator resumes its normal speed.  With the configuration
software that came with your RocketChip, you should be able to turn this
feature off if you want.

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