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In article <1993Jan9.150240@cs.bham.ac.uk>, dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley) writes:
> In article <H.mcBUgFWEjuY@fredrik.atari.no>, jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe) writes:
> |> 
> |> Comodore officialy say that 60% of current A500 software works on the A1200.
> |> Impressive? I don't think so!
> |> 
> |> Compo (large german company that develop and sell ST/TT/Falcon software and
> |> hardware addons) have had a thorough test of a large base of existing ST 
> |> software to see if it worked on the Falcon 030, and they found that 95% (no 
> |> kiddin', ninty-five%) do run!
> |> This is even better than what Atari self hoped for, and it is MUCH better
> |> than what the TT can show up with. I have a TT and have little problems to 
> |> get the software I need.
> |> 
> 
> Yeah... There's a small problem with that though... Atari said to all the
> magazine publishers that the Falcon wasn't particularly supposed to be compatible
> with the STe, so that's what their writing. The games press are saying that the
> A1200 is better 'cause 60% of standard Amiga stuff (exactly what that means I'm
> not sure) will run.
> 
> A good bit to get people flaming is...
> 
> With regard to A500 games...
> 
> 60% of A600 stuff runs on the A1200
> 80% of A500+ stuff runs on the A600
> 50% of A500 stuff runs on the A500+.
> 
  NOT to start a flame war here, but a note on math.

  since 50% of the games run on a 500+ and only 80% of those run on a 600 and
of those only 60% run on the 1200.  Now, I don't know about you but if you pump
it out, lets use an aribtrary number like 100 ok?(NOTE I know there are more
than 100 programs available for the Amiga.)

 50% of 100 is 50.
 80% of 50 is 40.
 60% of 40 is 24!

  So 24 out of 100 games should work on the 1200.  Personally, I don't find
this all to comforting, especially considering the shape that the world is in
today.  Are you going to spend that much money on a system that only can use
less than a quarter of the available programs for it?  see 24/100.



> Which in total isn't a particularly good compatibility rating!
> 
> :-)
> 
> David.



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[ Mark Santora                                                       ]
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