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Post #21 by equill
Source Forum68kMLA
CategorySoftware
Post DateSun, 13 Jan 2008 - 09:37
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/quadra-605-ram.11155/
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And now you know why System 7 sucks on a 68000 based machine. Even a stripped configuration eats up all the RAM. Even taking Dana's 7mb cache setup into consideration, System 7 is still a pig on early Macs.
Too true. No 32-bit addressing, for starters, so forget Mode32. CFM-68K crashes it. Retrofitting of AppearanceCDEV and its Extension gives irremediable address errors. And on, and on. A couple of wasted days in outcome, but a fair degree of learning in my recent/current resuscitation of a rather nice 4MB (80ns, to match the RAM on expansion card and MLB) Classic 'Rev. B' whose only fault is an apparent need for resoldering of the video-in card's connections to the CRT. After several hours of use, or in a Summer ambience, the 3:1 chequers appear at restart, and all further startup activity ceases. No chime. No nuttin'.

But there is one happy note: it will run TattleTech 2.59, which is useful if not as complete as 2.84 on later Macs.

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