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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 02:08:03 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 19 Mar 96 "jolyon Ralph" wrote to All:
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- jR> When the hardware changed in the Amiga Technologies AT1200 for the disk
- jR> drive and old games didn't work, AT admitted it was their fault, as the
- jR> design for the new AT1200 had broken the Amiga's own rules (as stated
-
- I doubt this very much, it certainly sounds different from what
- dr. Kittel said a while ago. Apart from that...
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- jR> in the hardware reference manual) for low-level disk access (which like
- jR> it or not ARE documented as part of the Amiga architecture).
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- Probably documented as "not to be used if you want to avoid problems".
- Which some people prompty forgot, and now put blame on AT.
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- jR> I couldn't care less if I can load my old Non-DOS games or not, I don't
- jR> tend to use anything that won't run off my hard drive, but if news gets
- jR> out that the new amiga is not compatible with old software, dealers and
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- Old software that broke the rules and banged the hardware, yes.
- Which most of the time isn't worth using anyway, and on the way out.
- If people don't use the OS, it's their fault, definitely not AT's.
- If anyone is to be held responsible, it's the game coderZ.
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- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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