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- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230522.19832@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:05:22 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.121746.19679@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
-
- >What I find odd is that several Acorn releases of late state that they
- >require Risc-OS 3 (version 3.1 or later). This would suggest that
- >Acorn have stoppped supporting RO2 wholesale,
-
- Good. Trying to maintain RO2 compatability severely restricts use of the new
- RO3 features, and I for one don't want to wait for another 3 years before
- some truly RO3.10 compatible software is available.
-
- >and also that there must
- >be some big difference between RO3.00 and RO3.1.
-
- Well, just for starters, there are things like the 3-d icon borders, which
- under 3.00 were 'B' validation strings, and under 3.10 are 'R' ones.
- Just these 'small' things make for great headaches trying to ensure that
- your software runs perfectly on the 3 different OS versions that are
- currently rife. Easiest solution: Don't try. Just make it compatible with
- the latest OS release and take advantage of all the new features that you
- need.
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