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- From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200 Display Modes
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 18:13:13 +0100
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
- Message-ID: <4l8hj9$1er@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <31777C01.338D@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk>,
- Christos Dimitrakakis <mbge4cd1@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk> wrote:
- >I'm lucky (?) enough to finally being able to buy a
- >2nd hand A1200 120MB HD for 250 British Pounds.
- >It is one of the first year of production models.
- >Is it considered a good price?
- >Anything different with later production line models?
- >Anyway, it seems in good condition, but I do have a question:
- >Some games require the 'original chip set' to be
- >selected from the boot menu, or else they display
- >a corrupted screen. (the same thing you get on an A500
- >if you set the video registers improperly).
- >Is that normal? (I can't tell myself because I've never
- >even seen an A1200 before)
-
- Yes. What this means is that the games were very shodilly written and
- made assumptions that they weren't entitled to make. You have to
- cripple the hardware in the A1200 to make them run OK.
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