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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 12:17:33 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dg50t$dpe@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960103.89CA330.4A1B@vrb.com> <96004.153727LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <peterk.0jxs@combo.ganesha.com> <0000fe80@ai.inka.de>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Hardware Hack
- Keywords: Now!
-
- In article <0000fe80@ai.inka.de>, Thomas Boerkel <tom@ai.inka.de> wrote:
- >Hi!
- >
- >Dr. Peter Kittel wrote:
- >
- > > >Yeap. I think the idea works, but need a bit more engineering to make
- > > >it reliable and easy to manufacture. As is, it would require a patch
- > > >in trackdisk for them to work reliably which means you can't boot off
- > > >a HD.
- >
- > > And say goodbye to many games, I assume. People don't like this.
- > > I can tell from the protest letters we receive because of the current
- > > floppy problems of some games.
- >
- >Well, since the bad games do not run on the new A1200 already, one can go
- >that one step further with the floppy.
- >
- >BTW: I read from a hardware-hack for the A1200 to generate this missing
- >ready-signal that breaks Fears and others. Couldn't this hack have been
- >done from AT in the first place?
-
- How about doing it now? For the next shipment of A1200s.. it would save a
- lot of trouble and bad publicity... friends telling friends this and that
- won't work etc.
-
- Mail him the information instead of him possibly missing it here.
-
- -=*George*=-
-
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