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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 00:40:08 GMT
- Organization: E. Scrooge's Humbug Factory
- Message-ID: <9601170040.AA002ho@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
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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.
-
- No, it's the games that don't conform to the standard, i.e a disk
- formatted with OFS/FFS, not some useless disk-grinding trackloader :-(
-
- > There may be more yet.
-
- Does KS3.1 cause much of a problem to games, that's the only other
- change I know of.
-
- Paul
-
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