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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200+
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:00:17 GMT
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- chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) wrote:
-
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- >: I knew once they discontinued the CD32 they would encorporate a CD-ROM
- >: drive into a standard A1200 casing.. but from the specs of the A1200+ it
- >: states a CD-ROM drive in place of the floppy drive?? How can one use
- >: A1200 software if a floppy drive is not included? Surely they are not
- >: going to introduce a machine with hardly any software for it and cannot
- >: use PD games/demos via a floppy drive? Geesh, every PC AT LEAST comes
- >: with a 3.5 inch floppy drive.. what nut made this decision?
-
- >I seriously doubt that AT would release it without a floppy drive. If
- >they did, it wouldn't matter to me as long as they included a floppy and SCSI
- >connectors. If I got one, I wouldn't put a floppy on it. I would order
- >another Zip drive to put on it. I actually hope they do release it without
- >a floppy drive, maybe companies will stop making NDOS floppy games.
- >I refuse to buy games unless their on CD. I don't care if they use
- >all the space on the CD, floppies just aren't dependable enough.
-
- >I'm really suprised that the various game companies haven't released
- >their old games together on CD. I wish I could get all the old Psygnosis
- >games on a single CD, updated to run on all Amigas. I would really like
- >to see some of the old games updated to use CyberVision RTG if available.
-
-
- >Chris Hall
- Chris, I agree with you 101%
-
- I would perper if AT left out the Floppy. I have an A1200 and using
- floppy games are a PAIN IN THE BUT. insert disk 4/6 then move two
- spaces then insert disk 2/6 etc... (Very few Amiga games install on
- Hard disks).
-
- I would much perfer a CD drive and have WB come on bootable CD...
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