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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XE Game System
Message-ID: <1639@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 88 19:26:14 GMT
References: <5688@eecae.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Terry Conklin writes:
> 
> Checks of the local Toys-R-Us store has shown sales of the XE Game
> System to be cruising right along. A friend says when he checked, they
> were completely sold out.
> .....
> .....
> P.S. It seems important to note that the people I have talked to are not
> only getting the game system, but a disk drive as well.
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
I assume that you are referring to the Atari XF551  DSDD  drive?   (If
not,  what  drive(s)  are being sold?!?) How do these people like this
drive?

I haven't talked to my local Toys-R-Us, Kay-Bee Toys, etc. , but  from
the  recent  ATARI  SIG  traffic on Delphi from people who have, I see
that the XEGSs are a "hit" in at least several  major  cities  in  the
U.S.

If you decide to develop a game for the XEGS, keep  in  mind  that  it
should  be compatible with the rest of the 8-bits too (or at least the
XL/XE machines!).  There are a lot of us "old 8-bitters" out here  (as
just  a  LOCAL  [Chicago  area]  BBS  listing  I  did late last summer
showed), and a new game every once in a while helps us keep  the  "old
faithful  8-bit"  out of the closet (in my case, my 8-bits are my ONLY
home computers - so far... Tramiel(s),  where's  that  680x0  UNIX(tm)
box?).

Nick DiMasi
Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary;
   ^          working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL)
(  | this is an accent mark, supposed to replace the dot over the 'i')