Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: 3000 software compatability info wanted Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 21:06:25 GMT References: <1991Mar24.001929.10356@csusac.csus.edu> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: robin@vipunen.hut.fi's message of 24 Mar 91 14:32:28 GMT In article robin@vipunen.hut.fi (Jarto 'Robin' Tarpio) writes: In article <1991Mar24.001929.10356@csusac.csus.edu> emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) writes: I've been wanting to purchase an Amiga-3000, but my dealer here tells me only about 60% of software runs on it, even under 1.3. Anyone have a list of software which will run on the 3000? Including games and useful software as well. Depends on what software you look at. If you include _all_ software, the 60% figure is probably about right. If you restrict yourself to productivity software, then I'd say it's better than 90%. Making sure you've got the latest rev of the software helps (I've gotten free upgrades to a number of packages to bring them up to snuff for 2.0). If a program breaks on an A3000 using KS1.3, it breaks under all the acceleretor cards on the market and it's not worth using. Not quite true. The A3000 uses memory at addresses above $ffffff, meaning that software that depends on the high byte of an address being zero will break. Not all accellerators have memory there. I don't use KS1.3 in my A3000 any more. I didn't install the 1.3- partition on my new 210M Quantum. There is quite few programs that break in my Amiga. Usually those that don't work I wouldn't use anyway. Ditto - I decided I had better uses for the space in the 1.3 partition, and used it.