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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WB/DOS 3.x Software Incompatibilities?
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 03:03:57
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- Kilroy (eabu2072@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
- : In article <ad22b800040210041918@[140.254.12.85]>,
- : Robert Rumpf <rumpf.1@osu.edu> wrote:
- : >I'm considering upgrading from 1.3 to 3.0 but am concerned about software
- : >incompatibilities. Currently I only have games (Eye of the Beholder I &
- : >II), but I plan on getting current apps as well. Does anyone know if this
- : >will be a problem? TIA...
- :
- : correct me if i am wrong, but if you still wish to run 1.3 and 3.0...get
- : something called multistart II...it will allow you to have both roms on
- : this card, and switch between them at your leisure....
- :
- : but, it is a hundred dollar hardware piece...
-
- $100? These things are basically just two DIL sockets and a switch. Simple
- enough to build yourself. I bought one new _with a 1.3 ROM already installed_
- for 25UKP, from Datel if I remember correctly. Very useful for games, because
- softkicking 1.3 is not always as likely to work as using a real ROM. There are
- details on Aminet on how to build one.
-
- -- Mat.
-