Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: mriley%pnet02.cts.com@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: (none) Message-ID: <4453@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:56:46 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 42 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 4984; Sun, 02 Oct 88 00:33:20 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sun, 02 Oct 88 00:33:15 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa04782; 1 Oct 88 16:44 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa04771; 1 Oct 88 16:43 EDT From: Mark Riley Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing") Message-ID: <7431@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 1 Oct 88 17:20:21 GMT Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU On 9/30/88 papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: [Marco flaming Tony who is flaming Leo who was flaming me, got that? ;-] >Why don't you shut up, if you don't know what you are talking about? There >are NO ROM changes required to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3. You don't need to >bring your A5000 (or B2000) to the store to upgrade to 1.3. Look, it's MY mistake that I mentioned 1.3 needs a ROM change. This stems from lack of information about what version does what. Apparently 1.3 is not the version that is going to introduce major functions that are not compatible with earlier versions. I think this would be called 1.4, instead. That may be the one to be scared of, who knows. As an example, I understand that there is going to be overscan support in 1.4 (or whatever it's gonna eventually be called.) What's going to happen when a program wants an overscan screen using this new function when running on 1.2. It's not going to get it. I'm sorry, but a message like "SuperProgram V1.0 needs 1.4 in order to run - Sorry, you're S.O.L.)" just is not going to cut it with me. I've seen enough of this on the Mac, why must it happen here? People already can create overscan displays. Makes no sense to me. -Mark- UUCP: ...!crash!gryphon!pnet02!mriley BIX: mriley LAT: 34.25 N INET: mriley@pnet02.cts.com PLINK: SONIX LONG: 118.78 W "Hey, I don't _use_ programs, I write them..." ;-)