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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade for A1000 Owners!
Message-ID: <21521@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 May 91 19:35:04 GMT
References: <D4RL21w161w@nstar.rn.com> <1991May8.012740.26800@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May13.172116.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> <a-.h94k@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
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In article <a-.h94k@rpi.edu> peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) writes:
>In article <1991May13.172116.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> c8927218@wombat.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>>In article <1991May8.012740.26800@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Homicidal Lunatic) writes:

>>> 10% of his software works with 2.0? he must have only Psygnosis games and some
>>> really old ones at that. <or perhaps just games in general but SOTB doesnt work
>>> on a 3000>

>>Who buys a 3000 for games ???

>Well, how about to develop games.... :)

No problem there, since you won't be doing the evil things that break these
old games, out of necessity.  There's no reason any properly written Amiga
program should have trouble on the A3000.  Imagine if every game were developed 
on an A3000 and play tested (for compatibility and speed reasons) on a plain, 
512K A500.

As for compatibility in general, the software people seem to be proving that
compatibility under 2.0N increases dramatically as "N" increases.  Software
bugs, rather than compatibility issues, that cause things to break on the 3000
need to be fixed -- no amount of heavy magic can repair a program that's 
just plain buggy.

>>Robert.
>Joe Peck


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