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- From: paul@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu (Paul Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: TT Compatability questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.133858.3635@arizona.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:38:54 GMT
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- In article 714929181@deci, mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack) writes:
- > With the recent drop in TT prices, I'm considering purchasing one but
- > first I'd like to know what people's experiences are with the TT.
- >
- > So, for those of you who know, could you answer as many questions
- > below as possible and I'll post a summary of the results to this news
- > group in a day or so.
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > ==============
- >
- > 1 . Do games like Falcon, Flight Simulator, Sim City, etc. run well
- > on the TT? Too fast?
-
- All the games I have are ones I've downloaded, and _most_ work, though some require
- switching screen modes manually or running a 24-bit mapping program first.
-
- >
- > 2. Does Calamus and other word processing packages work?
- >
-
- I have demos on Calamus 1.09 (?) and SL (German version) and they both work, though
- SL keeps complaining about more memory (I've only got 2M)
-
- > 3. Has Minix been ported over yet?
- >
- > 4. Is there a Unix like OS for the TT? If so, has anyone gotton X11
- > R4 or X11 R5 to compile on a TT?
- >
- > 5. Are there any UNIXless X servers available for the TT?
- >
- > 6. If you own a TT, what are your impressions of the machine?
- >
- Support is terrible, but hey, this _is_ Atari, and the mail-order place I got it from
- knew nothing about it (but it was cheap). But it does run lots of stuff nice and
- fast (enought to impress my friends) and some of it is even useful (e.g., running
- Mac stuff on Spectre puts real Macs to shame).
-
- > 7. Which version of the Atari OS do the TTs run? 2.?? 3.??
- >
- 3.05. Bugs, bugs, bugs (but there's fixes out there).
-
- > ==============
- >
- > Dan
- > --
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- > Dan Mack (mack@cray.com) / | \ "We're not hitchiking anymore... ..
- > Sun/SGI Resource Group \/_\/ We're riding!" -Commander Hoek
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- -Paul Harris
- paul@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu
-