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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Phantom
- Message-ID: <NB4BqB3w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 12:14:58 PDT
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
- Lines: 35
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- I just got a working copy of that game Phantom. (last night, actually. I
- was up at 3am unDiskComming the damned thing!).. It's a pretty good
- game. It looks like Gauntlet, has the object of Ghostbusters, and the
- most repetetive music I've ever heard! (next to Tetris on the GameBrat.)
- (the music is it's only bad point)
-
- Very nice graphics. If Dandy or Gauntlet look anything at ALL like this,
- they'll become a must on my list!
-
- BTW: Bob Woolley has been kind enough to send out a spare copy of Action!
- that he has!!! And is offering me a 1200xl OS upgrade (that means Quick
- will work!) and a RAM upgrade (he says 256k simms cost about $1!.. with
- that DDIII will work MARVELOUSLY!)... and all for minimal charges.
-
- Damn you 8-bitters are kind souls! ;)
-
- BTW: (mainly to Jeff McWilliams, but also anyone else interested) Bob
- said that the way HE does 1200xl OS upgrades is to use EPROMs. Rather
- than pull one of the 2 24-pin OS sockets and replace one with a 28-pin
- socket for the new OS (and the other spare could be used for built-in
- BASIC), he just EPROMs the OS onto two 24-pin chips and plugs 'em in. He
- said something about 800 OS being on them too, hence no more FIXXL'ing,
- just flipping the OS (how..!?!?) over to 800 mode when I need it.. (to
- play that game "Smush"..hehehe)
-
- Anyways... it sounds really interesting. Most of what he says is beyond
- me, tho, but all I want is the comfort of having a nice operating system
- ;) (and being able to see the BIG Dem, the Das Omen demo, Fred and
- Mission Shark, and Quick...heheheheh)
-
- ___________________________ ||| __ PhBill @ Cyberden (+1 415 472-5527)
- PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \ San Rafael, California, U.S.A.
- moon!cyberden!PhBill@well.sf.ca.us (North of San Francisco)
- __________________________________
- August 30, 1992
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