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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.
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