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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD/DD drives jumpered = games/apps not working correctly
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:56:24 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4cv2ro$2lk@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4c5ejt$qrs@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4c5pev$k3l@alterdial.UU.NET> <peterk.0jsl@combo.ganesha.com>
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- In article <peterk.0jsl@combo.ganesha.com>, peterk@combo.ganesha.com wrote:
- >In article <4c5pev$k3l@alterdial.UU.NET> chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
- >>George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >>
- >>: Will there be a fix in the OS to make up for the newer drives in the
- >>: A1200 breaking older A1200 programs on floppy?
- >
- >It's not "broken", so it doesn't need a "fix". But you can't change
- >it by software, if you really want you have to change the hardware.
- >
- >>I've got a better idea. How about the game producers stop putting the
- >>stupid disk protection routines on their games and they will work without
- >>any problems.
- >
- >Good idea. And it's even *not* in the protection part of their track
- >loaders as far as I understand, they just need to follow the advice
- >of the Hardware Reference Manual to add a time-out of .5 s for the
- >DiskReady signal of the drive. That's all.
-
- All this was stressed very loudly in the Commodore support areas on BIX. A few
- British developers made "BS" comments as they bowed out and left BIX. They WERE
- right. They did not have to pay attention to the standards. Their games sold
- just as well as if they did. It was the customers who felt an invading object up
- their backsides. Folks reading this might reflect on it every time they are fed
- up with a game that will not run on their systems.
-
- >--
- >Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // Visit http://www.amiga.de
- >Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- >Employed at Amiga Technologies GmbH in Bensheim, Germany
- >My news and email feed was down for nearly 2 weeks, sorry.
- >In memoriam Konrad Zuse
-
- {o.o} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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