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From: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: RE: Flight Simulator II
Message-ID: <19102.2640b948@merrimack.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 23:05:44 GMT
References: <9005030505.AA22343@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
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In article <9005030505.AA22343@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>, JOURV765@KSUVXA.KENT.EDU ("JOHN VAN HUFFEL: COMPUTER SCI. MAJOR") writes:
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> Someone called me a couple of weeks ago asking about Flight Simulator
> II for the Atari 8-bit.  Please give me another call.  I'm
> considering selling the system separately now.  My number is
> 916-894-0887.
>  
> Ed Krimen
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Since I haven't seen anything from the listserv for quite some time now,
> I'll just say what I have to say about Flight Simulator II...
> I Love the program. I had it even before I got my 800XL & 1050 drive.
> Now I have a 130XE % the new XF551 drive, but for some reason, Flight
> Simulator II won't work when I have the XF551 hooked up. I have to set my
> 2nd drive (the 1050) to be drive #1 in order for the program to run
> without any errors. There's no way to isolate the problem when I get the error
> because it gives me a different error each time. Luckily I still have my
> trusty 'ol 1050 disk drive. :)
> By the way... are there any new and interesting 8-bit BBS's out there?
> Thanks,


        FSII wont work with the XF551 because of the copy protection scheme it
  uses, and the timing holes.  Some information was written about this a while
  back in either Antic or Analog.