Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Question about WB 2.0 Message-ID: <19929@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 Mar 91 05:16:10 GMT References: <91065.091436OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET> <19606@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 34 In article dhansen@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dave Hansen) writes: >>>Is it incompatible ? Is 2.0 for only A-3000 ? >>>What must I do for use the 2.0 on my A-500 ? >> >>have patience. >> >Let's go for the 64 thousand dollar question on WB_2.0 and KS_2.0: >How many programs will break under KS_2.0? How can I protect my investment in >software and still use WB_2.0? Will there be a kickstart for 2.0 ROM users to >switch back to 1.3 ROM compatibility? Developers tell me that 1.3 ROM -> 2.0 >is possible now. There are 3rd-party rom towers which allow easy switching between roms. People with MMUs have always been able to switch kickstart versions, given enough magic. As for compatibility, don't take currently released versions as a good indicator: almost all of our energies the last 2 months has been testing and improving compatibility. You don't want to see some of the evil tricks we played, though.... Compatibility, particularily with newer programs and productivity stuff, is quite high. Even old take-over games that are no longer published have been rescued from a well-deserved grave. A developer told me a few nights ago over dinner that he couldn't believe that we made his first Amiga game work under 2.0. The ones that work under 2.0 now _far_ outnumber the ones that don't (and a number of them have updates out/coming). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)