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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 18 Jan 96 10:54:18 GMT
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- Salutations Wells for on the 17 Jan 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- WFB> There ISN'T anything inherintly uncompatible with the drives, only with
- WFB> the softwares use of the OS. Just as with any upgrade or change, if
- WFB> people choose not to use the OS and hit the hardware, such problems
- WFB> will arise.
-
- Well no actually. There are some occasions when people will bang on the
- hardware. Disk protection is the obvious choice and other things in games.
- The A1200 isn't an upgrade, it's the same machine so therefore it should be
- 100% hardware compatible. What's more, there was no NEED for compatibility
- to be broken.
-
- In this case, the fault could very easily have been avoided and has been in
- current Amigas being manufactured (AFAIK) but the key problem was that the
- machines were hardly tested with a real back catalog of software. An AT
- recurring theme alas.
-
- WFB> And 'lots' of (games) software is not the fact. A handful. I only am
- WFB> aware of the commercial version of Fears not working. Anyone know of
- WFB> other games (or apps) that don't work with the new drive that they can
- WFB> mention?
-
- There's a *lot* of games.
-
- WFB> Oh, and ONE item is not 'LOTS'.
-
- That's correct and so it isn't ONE item. It's LOTS. I know as I answer a
- half dozen calls a day about it.
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