The Mega ST's arrive! (and the first problems too :-))

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From: K538915
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1987 18:03

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The Mega ST's started selling today in Switzerland ('selling' = you can go
in the shop payup 3000 SFr and walk away with one). So at last we know how
long immient is :-). The bad news is (well at least in my opinion) is that they
are being sold without blitter (I don`t think anyboady actually believes it
will ever be available!). One interesting point is that the price difference
between 2 and 4 Mega versions is only 400.- SFr (~$270), so our local shop
expects only to be selling the 4 Mb version.
   Another point to note is that UniTerm will not run on the ST-4 (I haven`t
tried it on a ST-2) with german ROM`s, the xbios setscreen call seems to
have changed, in any case the switching between text and help screen doesn't
seem to work anymore. Can anybody at Atari shed some light on this (BTW it
would be nice if some of the more widely spread PD and Freeware stuff could
be tested for problems with new ROM releases).


                                   Simon Poole
                                   K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET

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