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- From: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.2jCeQ8EYz7o@fredrik.atari.no>
- Organization: Atari Corp. Scand. AB (Norway)
- Subject: Re: TT Compatability questions
- Keywords: TT, ST, compatible, games, applications
- References: <Compatability> <questions> <H.MGgdbM2U5VY@fredrik.atari.no>
- <1992Sep3.115337.3528@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 19:37:18 MET
- Lines: 40
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- In <1992Sep3.115337.3528@cs.hw.ac.uk>, Neil Forsyth writes:
- >>No, not many games do work (at least without doing some tricks)! But
- >>does it matter. Who buys a TT for playing games? I'd rather buy a LYNX
- >>for that purpose:-)
- >
- >It matters plenty! If games don't work on the TT because they are poorly
- >written and don't take account of the 68030 then the same games will not
- >work on the Falcon. I can easily imagine people buying Falcons to play
- >games.
- >
-
- If You'r concerned about Falcon's compatibility you'r doing some wrong
- assumptions!
- The TT and the Falcon 030 may have the same processor, but that's not the
- same as beeing identical machines in respect to compatibility with the ST.
-
- First, all hardware in the Falcon resides within the same 24Bit addressing
- range as th ST. In the TT, there are a full 32Bit addressing range wich
- causes a lot of trouble for some games.
-
- Second, the Falcon is designed to be as compatible with the ST as possible.
- The TT was designed to be as powerfull as possible, and at the same time
- a TOS machine wich should run any well written GEM application. Nothing
- more was ever promised.
-
- Third, the falcon is a consumer product, the TT is not! This beeing a fact
- makes it obvious why Falcon has to be more 'old-ST-games' compatible than
- the TT was.
-
- And last, don't you forget that many games doesn't even tolerate the 16Mhz
- and cache of the MSTE (or speedup-boards for old ST(E)'s). Some games are
- even quite intolerant to different TOS versions to! So, I'd bee more concerned
- about the compatibility of the games, rather than about the compatibility of
- the machines!
-
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- _______________________________________________________
- / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
- / Oslo, Norway / Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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