Re: IIGS question

[tmmadden@engin.umich.edu (Tom Madden)]

In article <sirius-3005960031000001@d-134866.spirit.com.au>,
sirius@spirit.com.au (Michael Hickey) wrote:
[Some items deleted for sake of bandwidth] 
> There are some drawbacks to the ROM 01.  
> -the 01 motherboard is "noisier" than the ROM 03 making sound digitising a
> pain,   and limiting accelerator speeds to <12.5MHz (?).
> - the 01 has only 256k on the motherboard, vs 1.125 Mb on the 03.
> -the way the built-in ports are handled on the 01, means that when you set
> a slot to "your card" you usually disable the corresponding built-in port.
> -probably other things too....

Ahh, but you forget that there are some _advantages_ to buying a ROM 01
machine. If you intend to play a lot of games, beware that some older
games (and quite a few of the programs by the FTA) will not work with a
ROM 03 machine. This has to do with the fact that in the interest of
making a program run faster, the programmer tweakes the code using
proprietary functions that will only work with a specific hardware
combination. If that hardware combination is changed ever so slightly,
these "tweaks" may no longer function.

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