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- From: wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank)
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
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- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:37:36 GMT
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-
- Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Nick Christie (nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
- : : Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- : : >the C= A1200 and AT A1200 are not compatible.
- : :
- : : Oh? I must have missed a thread. How are they not compatible?
- : :
- : : Nick
-
- : Yeh you missed lots -> floppy drives in the AT A1200 do not conform to the
- : standards laid down for C= A1200. Hence lots of (games) software will not
- : work on ATs A1200.
-
- : There may be more yet.
-
-
- It's a pitty to hear people mis-informing the public.
-
- The problem with the drives is when programmers (typically game authors)
- don't use the OS to access the drive. Track loaders and the like can cause
- a problem.
-
- There ISN'T anything inherintly uncompatible with the drives, only with the
- softwares use of the OS. Just as with any upgrade or change, if people
- choose not to use the OS and hit the hardware, such problems will arise.
-
- And 'lots' of (games) software is not the fact. A handful. I only am aware
- of the commercial version of Fears not working. Anyone know of other games
- (or apps) that don't work with the new drive that they can mention?
-
- Oh, and ONE item is not 'LOTS'.
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-