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From: evtracy@sdrc.UUCP (Tracy Schuhwerk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 compatibility
Message-ID: <1476@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 13:30:30 GMT
References: <138036@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Distribution: comp
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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From article <138036@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by jasonf@cetemp.Eng.Sun.COM (Jason Freund):
> I'm going to get my 3000 in a couple of months.
> 
> The biggest question I have about the machine is:
> How compatible will it be with my A500's games.  I heard that 90%
> of non-game software will run.  I've already tried F18 and
> Hard Drive'n -- they work perfectly.   
> 1)  What other games work for sure?
> 2)  Will it be possible to install a 68000|10 (68000/16Mhz) chip to
>     get complete compatibility?
> 3)  Is my figure of 90% compatibility for non-games accurate?

  So far, my 3000 has been running 100% on non-game commercial software
  (SA4D, PageStream, Lattice C, etc.) and out of the games I've tried,
  I have seen about 80% of the NEWER titles work under 2.0 (Budokahn,
  TV Sports BBall, etc.).  I have run into a snag with UUCP (although
  I am using version 1.03 of UUCP) in that it Guru's (Software Failure now
  :-() when using 2.0 (using KS 1.3 it works fine).  I hope that I can
  FTP 1.06 and get that up and running under 2.0 so I can use my home
  feed to post soon!  One of the most amusing quirks in a game that I've
  found was in the old title "Little Computer People" (little ones loved
  this one)... My LCP (Jacob) seems to have turned into a LCP (which now
  stands for Little Computer Poltergeist!).  Everything shows up fine
  and you can hear him walking around in the house (although it is now
  more like SPRINTING around the house) except Jacob and his dog are
  invisible!  Pretty Cool... I have a "Little Computer Poltergeist"!


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