NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/tech/5684

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From: [e-mail] (Ricardo Hernandez)
Subject: Re: 16-bit RAM Access on Falcon ?
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Simon Oke) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ricardo Hernandez) writes:
|> |   While I wouldn't claim that the A1200 runs every available piece of
|> |software (particularly games), it surely runs almost any Amiga application.
|> |Include here all paint packages, desktop publishing, illustration programs,
|> |multimedia programs, etc.  Yes, it's got a significant advantage over
|> |the FALCON.  And BTW, I know of more than 30 games that run on the A600.
|> |
|> And I have a friend who can name a few dozen that don't even work on
|> his A500 plus (supposedly *completely* compatible with the 500 - har har.
|> So I don't think that there is much chance of those games running on a
|> 600 or 1200, do you?

   Talking for the A600, I believe that a lot of games will run... talking
about the A1200, still it will run a lot of games but less than the A600
due to the 68EC020.

|> |    Psygnosis and Ocean have pledged support for the AGA.  There is another
|> | company that also pledged support for the AGA.  AT LEAST Psygnosis and
|> | OCEAN are MAJOR entertainment software companies....  Psygnosis ALONE
|> | is an EXCELLENT MAJOR GAME COMPANY... a company that have dropped ST
|> | support in some of their games...
|> |
|> I suggest you read comp.sys.amiga.games. Psygnosis are continually flamed
|> for producing games that refuse to run on anything more than a bog-standard
|> A500. They can't even support *current* machines, so what makes you think
|> that they can support new ones?

   For the A600, they will work since they bypass the OS completely, and
the OS is the only stumbling block between compatability between an A500
and an A600.  For the A1200, some of them wouldn't work 'cause not taking
into account timing considerations.  But, latest Psygnosis games run fine
(on the A3000 at least) - Leander, Lemmings, Awesome...

|> |    I suggest that you read signatures before replying.... the guy above
|> | seems to work for an entertainment software company and I think that
|> | he knows better.
|> |
|> The guy who wrote that article is a notorious bigot and flamer. Yes, he does
|> work for a programming team - a team that refuses to support anything other
|> than Amigas, I believe. Obviously they are totally reliant on hardware to do
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|> the hard work for them.

   Thanks for the implicit compliment to the Amiga line...:-|  But anyway,
let's say that there are some things that just can't be done in plain
software.... you Falcon guys should know better.

   Nevertheless, if the above guy is a notorious bigot and flamer... sorry,
but at least I answered to a posting where I see some lies.

|> --
|> This signature is copyright 12/6/1992 Simon Oke. All rights reserved. If you
|> like it and keep a copy for your own use, you owe me $20. Please pass it on
|> to your friends with all documentation.              Email [e-mail].
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Analysis of television viewing figures has shown that 80% of people in this
|>     country are crap.

- Raist