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- From: peter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Peter Korsten)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A1200 Compatability (was Re: I am NOT making this up, OK?)
- Message-ID: <6790@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:25:36 GMT
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- Greg Granger (ggranger@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
- : mackie@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:
- :
- :- What do you think of the A1200? I am a games player (I won't apologize for
- :- it - in fact in some sort of weird way I'm proud of it) and I think the IBM
- :- clone sucks as a games machine. If none ever get written for the Falcon, the
- :- it too, will suck. Is the A1200 the answer to my needs?
- :
- : Stay away from the A1200 like the plague!!!!! Preliminary reports from
- : Europe say that a lot of the software written for the A500 is trashed on
- : the A1200. There are lots of compatability problems with the A1200, so
- : it is not a viable machine to buy. If you don't believe me, check out
- : COMP.SYS.AMIGA.* for yourself.
-
- Hmm. When the A1000 came out, some games used the Kickstart RAM as an
- additional 256K. They didn't work with the A500 and A2000, of course.
-
- Then C= came with 1.3. Many games didn't work, because they jumped
- right into the Kicktstart ROM.
-
- When they came with the ECS, some games wouldn't work because they used
- reserved bits and memory locations.
-
- Hardly any game worked on turbo boards or the A3000.
-
- This has been ever since. Every time something new comes out, some bogus
- games crash on it. But the new games *will* work.
-
- For instance, Dynablaster works on the A1200. You'd even want to buy an
- Amiga for this game only (I don't know if it's on any other system and
- if so, whether you can play with 5 players).
-
- Since the A1200 is going to be a big hit, the newer games will work on
- it. And you can still do some serious work on a 68EC020...
-
- Peter.
- --
- Peter Korsten, on the ~ There's no chance for us - It's all decided for us
- Net better known as: ~ This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us
- peter@stack.urc.tue.nl ~ Who want to live forever? Who dares to love forever?
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