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From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
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Date: 1 Oct 88 17:20:21 GMT
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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-

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