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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Just got my A500
Message-ID: <579@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 22:43:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocky.579
Posted: Sat Sep 12 22:43:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 10:49:15 EDT
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Reply-To: ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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Matt Dillon writes:
> I just got my A500 today... it's now sitting on top my A1000.  ...

Wow, Matt, does that mean you have an A1500?

Those 500s do look good, I must agree. At the Computer Attic Amiga Show
today they had plenty of them, and Escort was advertising their $849
2 Meg expansion chasis, designed for the 500. That looks good too, but 
only the pictures were available... 

In any case, at the Amiga Show we picked up a copy of Little Computer
People. We brought it home, read the first page of the manual, saw
the part that said "insert KickStart 1.1," laughed, and booted up
with 1.2, thinking that everything would be fine. So the program starts
up, we wait a few minutes, the door opens, we hear footsteps, then a bit
later the file cabinet opens and closes... But there's no LCP! At this
point we realized that our LCP was invisible and actually looking at the
house. Invisible, can you imagine, we pay $22 and get an invisible LCP!

Anyway, as you might've guessed, the problem was with 1.2, or maybe with
expanded memory. We booted with 1.1 (which so conveniently fails to
recognize the 2 Meg Alegra), and then everything was fine. Victor was 
visible.

So, warning to all future LCP owners --- boot with 1.1. (What do A500 
owners do? Yank out that extra memory?) We'll be letting Activision
know about this. (Although it was quite amusing.) Good thing not too
many programs act like this.

(BTW, Bay Area people: The Amiga Show is also going on tomorrow, (13th)
from noon to 5pm. It's fun to go see all the stuff, and the Attic prices
are lower than normal (VS3D is $139, for instance.))

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu

[I'm in no way connected with the Attic or Activision.]