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From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XF551 Drive <> Flight Sim II incompatible
Summary: But Sublogic Can Fix
Message-ID: <1185@atari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 16:22:37 GMT
References: <8810030427.AA27417@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <4178@bsu-cs.UUCP> <12295@eecae.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <12295@eecae.UUCP>, conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes:
> 
>  
> A word of warning to you folks considering a purchase of the XF551 and
> or Flight Simulator II from Sublogic. These two products are NOT 
> compatible.

There was a problem with the protection scheme used on early copies of
Flight Simulator II that would keep it from working with the XF551.
Sublogic is aware of the problem and can provide you with a fix.

I am told the same thing can apply to some copies of the "Scenery Disks."

Jim Tittsler, Systems Engineer, Atari Corp.  {ames, portal}!atari!jwt