>We thought about getting such a board until some weeks ago when we were lended
>a Phase 5 Cyberstorm MK II 060 accelerator with 72-pin sockets. Still, it's
>quite apparent that this A3000 is kept together mostly by rust and hot glue.
>On good days, it works from a cold boot, otherwise it requires a few resets
>before everything's settled.
Did you have to do the INT2 mod on the A3000's mainboard for
the MK II? How's heat dissipation with the '060 cpu? When I was
running my A3000 with the A3640, the '040 cpu tended to run quite hot
and there wasn't enough room for a proper heatsink.
> >BTW, is WB still limited to 256 colors?
>God forbid! That could be a good reason to install P96/CGFX instead of EGS.
If I remember correctly, under EGS on the Spectrum (on both
my A3000 and A4000) programs that opened on the WB were limited to a
maximum of 256 colors while if they opened on their own screen they
could utilize the full maximum number of colors for that resolution.
It actually didn't look as bad as it sounds. I ran Shapeshifter on
it's own screen in at least 256 colors with a full Mac internet suite
(Netscape, Eudora, MacTCP, etc.). It played a mean game of Maelstrom.
Jeff
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 18:22:56 BST