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From: lachac@topaz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 upward compatible? HA!
Message-ID: <11198@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 20:50:14 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.11198
Posted: Sat Apr 18 20:50:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 08:25:35 EST
References: <2978@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <2978@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes:
>Did I hear someone say 1.2 is upward compatible with 1.1?
>They should try running Online! under 1.2. After an hour or so it
>switches to a martian key-map. Some keys are scrambled, most just
>send a '4'.

That's because of the way Online! was programmed.  If you type:

		setmap usa0

before you run Online!, the keyboard will funtion correctly.

>	How about Defender of the Crown with 1.2? The kingdom was
>united by a Saxon named 'Guru'. (I can't be sure 1.2 caused this)

Never did on mine.

>	Even Marble Madness had an extra-hard screen called 'the
>reboot race.'

Nope, not this either!

Kinda makes me wonder if your copy of 1.2 might not be flakey...




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		"Truth is false and logic lost..."
					- Neil Peart
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