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From: nclee@sbcs.UUCP (Nai Chi Lee)
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Subject: Re: Clone horror stories wanted
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 10:42:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 10:42:52 1986
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<<"It is SYMBOLIC"  -- Life Of Brian>>

I own a Fountain PC for five month now. I have tried all kinds of softwares
that I can lay my hand on: CrossTalk XVI, dBase III, Lotus 123, Turbo
Pascal, WordStar 2000, PC Paint, Gem DeskTop, ... and some 20 arcade games.
Nearly all of them works.

The exceptions being a few BASIC games (still, most of them can work if I
load in the Compaq Basic), and the game "Apple Panic" by Serria-On-Line (I
tried it on Tandy 1000, Sperry PC, IBM AT, and none of them works either).
My experience is that if at first a software don't work, it is usually not
due to incompatibility, but just not installated correctly.

When repairing a IBM PC for my friend, I borrowed his BIOS and BASIC ROM,
and pluged into my PC clone. The clone then seems 100% "the realy thing".
The only remaining difference being the half height disk. I heard something
about Sargon III can only be copied on a full height disk...

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"It is difficult to make something foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
[Anon]