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From: svrobins@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT desktop on ROMS?
Message-ID: <144.2764b8e3@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 90 10:45:55 GMT
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In article <276089C2.18110@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
> 	I've got the Quarter 4 1990 issue of ST World in front of me.  
> There is a review of the new desktop that was designed for the TT and
> possibly for the STE.  At the end of the article they mention something
> about getting the new desktop on ROMS.  I'm hoping this isn't wishfull
> thinking, but does anyone at Atari know anything about that?  And, when
> the magazine articlsays desktop, do they mean the whole ROMS?  
> I'm thinking rather than getting the 1.4 ROMS, go for the new ones.  Any 
> chance of that happening?
> 
> -- 
> John Schmitt
> johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
> ....!unet!utai!utgpu!maccs!johns

Quoting from ST Applications (December 1990) :

"The TT Desktop is 22K larger than the current ST GEM Desktop, and Atari
have confirmed that it won't appear in future versions of the 192K TOS Roms
used in the Atari ST. But the Atari STE uses 256K TOS Roms (30K of which 
isn't used), and programmers at Atari Systems Software Division have indicated
that Atari will bundle the TT Desktop in future versions of the STE's Roms."

So If you have dont have an STE (which you dont, as you are contemplating an
upgrade to 1.4 Roms) the it looks like the answer is NO. Its a real shame,
I'd love to fit it too.

Paul Robins