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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 18 Jan 96 11:07:54 GMT
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- Salutations Michael for on the 18 Jan 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- MvE> Oh. Tell me then why PC games rarely use disk protection ?
- MvE> Copy-protected disks are a thing of the past.
-
- I happen to agree on this count but it's no excuse for the broken drives.
-
- MvE> >It was estimated that early AT A1200s could only run about half of the
- MvE> >Amiga back catalogue of games. That is *more* than lots. Ok the
- MvE> early AT >machines probably didn't reach state side, and the problem
- MvE> is now >reportedly fixed giving 98% compatibility.
-
- MvE> It is kludged.
-
- But it works. It could have been kludged from the start.
-
- MvE> Which is for a completely other reason, no ? Like c00l c0d3rz not
- MvE> listening to specs ?
-
- Cool Coders creating games that gave the Amiga a massive catalog of
- software. The software works on MILLIONS of machines. A simple remanufacture
- of a fraction of the number broke compatibility with games for essentially no
- reason other that a lack of testing.
-
- I could lay a LOT of blame at certain coders doors. For instance, Super
- Street Fighter II Turbo being dead slow on stock Amigas and just crashing on
- accelerated units. This kind of thing REALLY annoys me, but blaming software
- houses for using disk protection (in the past) is complete arse!
-
- This however, just reflects that AT didn't test the machines. It would have
- taken any Amiga user just an hour with a small disk box to test those
- machines, reveal the fault and fix it without any of this ever happening.
-
- That's all there is to it. Now they've fixed it and that's just dandy but
- there's still a bunch of people out there with machines that don't run
- yesterdays software. To my mind that is unnacceptable and AT should address
- the problem. Yes, it might even cost money.
-
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