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#to fast 3000?

    20-Jun-90 23:14:45
Sb: #to fast 3000?
Fm: Michael McKnight 72677,3517
To: anyone/sysop (X)
If you are familiar with the IBM world, you are well aware that if you have a program written on a slow machine (XT for example) and run it on a fast one (286 for example), it runs a zillion times faster. I mean, you can't even play games written for slower machines because the objects disappear when you move them and reappear on the other side of the machine. My question is this; Why doesn't the faster Amiga's (2500, 3000) also have th problem? My dealer said that a program has to ask for the extra speed. How do I tell a program to "ask" for this speed if it was written on a 7mhz Amiga? This is a big concern for me as I have a large collection of software for my 1000 and most of it I WANT to run faster… such as graphics programs, spreadsheets, and compilers. But, music and games need to maintain a resonable speed. Will the Amiga 3000 have a utility like "goslow" on an IBM to slow down the processor? Any answer will help. Thanks!