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- From: hanway@ekfido.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 22:14:33 GMT
- Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : I couldn't care less if I can load my old Non-DOS games or not, I don't
- : tend to use anything that won't run off my hard drive, but if news gets
- : out that the new amiga is not compatible with old software, dealers and
- : distributors will think twice before stocking the Walker...
-
- If new models could never introduce incompatibilities in the name of
- progress, PCs would have never moved from 5.25" to 3.5" floppies, and
- Amigas would still use 68000's.
-
- The problem with incompatibilities in the AT1200 is that it is perceived
- as the same model that Commodore was selling. If truly new models lose
- the ability to run some old copy-protected games in order to user the same
- normal-speed high-density floppies as the rest of the world, I wouldn't
- mind a bit.
-
- --
- Ed Hanway <hanway@ekfido.kodak.com>
- Eastman Kodak - Motion Picture & Television Imaging, Cineon Development
- Opinions expressed are my own, except the ones which aren't.
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