Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Spring Lake Park, MN (45min from minneapolis)
Posts: 313

afterburner updated!

the newest version of afterburner is 3.0w, you can get it at www.palmgear.com

i have a few questions: what is the max speed of overclocking the platinum before the ir and serial stops working? does anyone encounter problems after overclocking so high on the delux or platinum?

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Luxembourg
Posts: 68

Afterburner and GPS Companion

I have never been able to run Afterburner (3.0t) together with my Magellan GPS Companion. Just having it activated (even with no options activated) triggers a an error when any program tries to access the GPS.

Did anyone succed in using both at the same time?

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Daytona Beach
Posts: 19

I tried AfterBurner once and only once. I only set one program -AvantGo- to 22 since that is very slow on my visor. When the screen immediately dimmed and the battery power dropped from 73% to 27%, I turned it off and deleted it. I don't know if that's normal, but I have no desire to go through batteries every other day. Was I doing something wrong?

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location:
Posts: 10

Hi there! I'm new, so excuse my newbosity

I just thought I'd point out a fun fact. I was amused that the Motorola DragonBall EZ in my new Visor will dissipate 76mW (milli = 0.001) of energy.

By comparison, the latest AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4ghz dissipates >76W of energy!! Yep, 1000X more energy...and you wonder why T-birds need such enormous HSF combos

Registered: Nov 2000
Location:
Posts: 24

GPS Companion and Afterburner

Olivier101

Been using both for better than a month on a VDX without any problem. It is afterburner 3u but I doubt that makes a different.
Settings: all 24Mhz, 0 ws core , fast Mpx, adjust ticks,LCD/n n=1. Always activate Afterburner first before any other hacks. I wish Magellan/Marcosoft would intergrate and upgrade the software; just my peeve

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Luxembourg
Posts: 68

Thanks, I'll give it another try then, if someone managed to do it, why not me ?

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Bonn, Germany
Posts: 55

quick note for everyone that tries overclocking and gets massive failures...

there are differences between batches of processors in how well they function.

manufacturers do some basic tests on each batch and always give conservative numbers where no failure will occur. Likewise sometimes they'll stamp things lower to fill market niches, which why in particular for the celeron processors series some of the late made 333s, where more capable overclockers than 400mhz chips made a month or two later.

if your handheld crashes at 20mhz, it's not the program or handspring's fault, it's more likely dumb luck that the processor you got doesn't have the integrity to run at that speed. It doesn't mean you have a bad processor, your processor should work grat at 16mhz, like it was intended to.

my experience with overclocking, is that the speed gain is not worth having to reset contrast constantly, which happens even with AF3.0x, in almost all settings

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