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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XE Game Cartridges on 400/800
Message-ID: <2861@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 88 13:18:15 GMT
References: <1010003@hpfcmr.HP.COM> <700@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 25
Summary: Good News! Maybe not...

In article <700@nunki.usc.edu>, rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
> In article <1010003@hpfcmr.HP.COM> bobm@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Bob Montgomery) writes:
> >
> >Ok, let's talk about games.  I have lots of games and I want more.  And
> >some of those new XE games look pretty good.  But I have a 48K 800.  Will
> >they work, he wonders?
> >
>   I have it STRAIGHT from two horses' mouthes (and they both sell Atari
> software/hardware, so it's not gossiping) that the XE Game System cartridges
> will work with ALL Ataris with 48K. I don't know why you'd had problems with
> Flight Simulator II, but apparently *all* of them will work on the 800!
> 
This is news to me.  Have they actually tried them?  The reason I ask is 
because Atari themselves (in the person of Neil Harris) said that many of
the new cartridges will not work in the older machines specifically because
they download 64K of information.  After all, they are supposed to be for
the XE Game System which has 64K of RAM.  Flight Simulator II has always
been used as an example of one of the cartridges that won't work unless
you have a 64K machine.  I am curious also, because I would like to get
FS II when it is available.


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
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