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- From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
- Subject: Re: atari XL 8-bits
- Message-ID: <Bzxyyn.43J@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <BzG895.Cy5@unix.amherst.edu> <wookie.2vgy@terapin.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:37:34 GMT
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- In article <wookie.2vgy@terapin.com> wookie@terapin.com (Barry Vanover) writes:
- >In article <BzG895.Cy5@unix.amherst.edu>, jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE
- >MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
- >The Atari 1200XL was not incompatible with it own software. When Atari
- >changed there OS (operating system) they change there vector points for
- >OS routines and SOME of the THIRD PARTY software programmers DO NOT use
- >the new vectors!!!! (thats why the translor OS disk was made, but third
- >party companies could not follow instuctions.)
- Compute! even published a book on machine language programming that
- used illegal system calls, which wouldn't work on an XL. But they
- made up for that by publishing "Mapping The Atari" and several other
- Atari books, articles and programs. Compute! magazine may still be
- publishing, but as far as I'm concerned they ceased to exist when they
- stopped covering 8-bit computers.
-
- Bill Marcum bmarcum@world.std.com
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