Re: [Epic] Epic 40000 Final Liberation

From: Eric Harding <omegas_at_...>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 01:07:05 -0800

>Rubbish !!
> I run many games that claim to be pentium only games on a Cyrix chipset,
>after all pentium is only IBM trademark for the chip not a seperate type of
>chip, it would have been called a 586 but Peugot already had the trademark
>on that. The important components are the ram and clockspeed. With 98% of
>software you will be fine with 3rd party manufacturers chips, after all
>software designers don't profit by making games that will only run on a
>small percentage of the target market. There are a couple of third party
>chips that are a bit dodgy but
>Cyrix and AMD are both good reliable brands IMO and have had know problems
>with either.
>Cheers
>Alun
>
>
>

Try installing the wave table software that comes with an AWE 64 on a
system with a Cyrix CPU and see how far you get...I can save the time and
effort, and tell you it won't work, as it uses a few calls that don't exist
on the Cyrix chipset.

Eric
Received on Mon Dec 22 1997 - 09:07:05 UTC