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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 07:21:23 +1000
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com) wrote:
-
- : In article <DoGn0o.6Bv@cix.compulink.co.uk> jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") writes:
- : > Does anyone know if the new 1.44Mb disk drive in the 'dung beetle' will
- : > actually read all 880Kb Amiga disks? After the fiasco with the
- : > A1200/A4000 disk drives not being compatible, I'd be very suprised if
- : > this new drive will read any non-standard format disks (like all the old
- : > games).
-
- : It's about time!!!!
- : The fact of the matter is that those games and demos are going to break.
- : Unless the PowerAmiga has a Paula and a low density floppy drive, they will
- : break on the PowerAmiga. Wouldn't that be a joke, a new PowerPC computer with
- : a 10 year old floppy controller? Besides, those games likely wouldn't work on
- : the 680x0 emulation, anyway.
- : So why can't the break come with the Walker? Perhaps that will mean more
- : OS friendly games, which install on the hard drive, and will survive the
- : transition to PowerPC? Well, one can hope....
-
- Truly. For years we've gleefully mocked PC owners for the crappy architecture
- they suffer through due to a blind adherence to "backwards compatibility"..
- it'd be stupid to saddle ourselves with an inferior machine for the same
- reasons.
-
- Anyway.. there will be new games and demos.. that will kick the arse of
- everything that exists now..
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