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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: RE: Action! Brain damage
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 16:07:03 EST
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I'm not sure why Scott Hessler's cartridge would tend to
  'disappear', but I've had my ACTION! cartridge for about 9 months
now, and it certainly has been inserted more than 100 times, but
the plating on the contacts is still very much there. I think
there may be a problem with that particular piece ( sure that spilled
tea didn't get just a little too close to the cart?? Tannic acid
does wonders for tinplate..), and OSS should  replace it
without complaining.

Re. the lack of features, I agree with Scott that what is present
is pretty good, considering BASIC is really the only alternative..
I guess I can always think of features I would like it to have, but
there is so much I can do with what there is now .. again, the 
bitwise operations and structures are such an improvement over Basic.
With ATARI apprently planning to keep the 800 series alive with the
new XE's, I hope OSS will keep ACTION! alive and bring out bug-freer
versions (you listening, Clint?)

-=ravi=-