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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Quick... ARGH!
- Message-ID: <0s8ePB3w164w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 18:11:08 PDT
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
- Lines: 42
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- Marek Tomczyk was a generous soul and purchased a copy of Quick from
- Power Per Post for me and mailed it out to me. (He must've decided to do
- this before I mentioned that I finally came in contact with them. (next
- time I'm REMEMBER TO USE AIRMAIL! ARGH!!!)) Anyways- I returned from
- vacation to see the pile of mail sitting on the sofa, and the only one to
- me being this gem of a program. Or so I thought...
-
- Marek explained that when booted, the Quick disk will show a shell screen
- that prompts me to "Edit, Compile, or DOS". This is true. He said that
- pressing one of the keys (E,C or D) will do what is supposed to happen.
- This is not. Now...I'm sure this can be one of many things. Marek
- mentioned the possibility of PAL vs NTSC incompatibility. It may be. Of
- course, the post office could have !#@?!'d up the disk on the way to me.
- And finally... and what >I< think is wrong (because it seems to be the
- thing wrong with my software these days) is the incompatibilty of my
- damned 1200xl. Does ANYone out there have Quick and a 1200xl. If so-
- does it work!? Does anyone out there have Quick and an NTSC 8-bit. If
- so- again- does it work!?!? I've been frantically trying to get in touch
- with my 65xe owning friend in town (closest 8-bit owner I know who has th
- thing working!) but can't. I'd just like to not have to wait TOO long or
- go through TOO much trouble to find out whether or not I have to upgrade
- my 1200xl or mail back Quick.
-
- Finally: re upgrading the 1200xl to 800xl/600xl compatibilty. Does this
- just require the purchase of an 800xl/600xl OS chip and a swap to be
- done? I know Bob Woolley does this upgrade (not sure if this is how it's
- done) as well as adding a PBI port to the 1200xl (I think I want one of
- those too.. but not too soon). Anyways- I'd rather not send this thing
- out (1 week was too much already to be w/o my 8-bit!!!). Should I just
- order some chips from BEST or B&C and try Quick when I get 'em?
-
- Thanx alot. BTW: Get a sleeper if you go ANYWHERE by
- train!!!!!!!!! (UGH!)
- Bill (I'm
- BAAACK!)
-
- "Be seeing you!"
- ___________________________ ||| __
- PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \
- moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- __________________________________
- August 12, 1992
-