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From: mmiller@nyx.UUCP (Mark Thomas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: a "translator" for STe?
Keywords: TOS translator
Message-ID: <1433@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 06:41:45 GMT
Reply-To: mmiller@nyx.UUCP (Mark Thomas Miller)
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Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In past postings on here, people have been complaining about STe 
incompatibility with certain software.  If you'll remember many years ago,
when the 800XL and other such machines came out, there were incompatibility
problems with it/them too.  How Atari solved this was to bring out The
Translator disk, which loaded the old 800 OS into RAM of the XL or XE
computer.  For me, in some cases where software hasn't worked on my XE,
it has worked wonders (yes, I am an 8-bit user, but am aspiring to get an
STe soon enough). 
I think it would be a good idea if Atari put out an older version of TOS
(like ver. 1.0 or 1.4) on disk, that would take over as the ST OS, so that
those programs that do not run on the STe (particularly games, as has been
mentioned) CAN be run, because the characteristics that those programs
take advantage of will be there, in the RAM OS.  Of course, all the 
advantages of the newer OS will not be there, but if you want to run an
old program on your new computer, it could be the only way, unless you
want to wait until the software company comes out with a newer version
of the program you want, which in some cases is very unlikely.

mmiller@nyx