Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!eecae!conklin From: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Flight Sim II <=> XF551 incompatible forever Keywords: SubLogic sez "bye bye" Message-ID: <12907@eecae.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 88 22:16:04 GMT Reply-To: conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) Organization: Michigan State University, ERDL Lines: 51 In a previous posting, I mentioned that I had discovered the new XF551 was incompatible with the Flight Simulator II program's copy protection, and that I could no longer read FS II, which is exceptionally inconvienent since I am now in Flight School, but do almost everything in double density There was a follow up message to the effect that SubLOGIC was aware of the problem and they had a fix disk. As I have an exam tonight, I was again reminded that I would really like to put some of this stuff to practice, and remembered the posting. So I picked up my Flight Sim II box and called the number on the back, (217) 359-8482: "Hello, I'd like to speak to customer service please" "Well, perhaps I can help. What program do you have?" "I have Flight Sim II for the Atari 8-bit" "Thank you, I'll switch you to customer service" ... "Hello, how can I help you?" "I have Flight Sim II for the Atari 8-bit, but it wont work on my XF551 drive and I was told that you have an upgrade/fix for it" "No, we do not support the Atari" "Excuse me?" "We do not support the Atari 8bit computers. If you have an 810 or 1050 it will work fine." "Ok, was there a fix for the XF551 before you dropped 8-bit support?" "No sir." "What about the cartridge, will it read scenery disks?" "If you purchase the game system, you can get the cartridge, but it will not read scenery disks." "I see. Thank you very much." Well f@%k me... Terry Conklin, who, perhaps in the face of reality, still thinks his 8bit is conklin@egr.msu.edu one of his most useful machines, regardless of the The Club (517) 372-3131 40 Meg Amiga 2000 or Unix workstation to either side. Club II (313) 334-8877