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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Update:  Graphic Interfaces for 8-bits
Summary: Diamond not so good on disk version
Message-ID: <2553@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 23:54:19 GMT
References: <8811010211.AA02417@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <10769@cup.portal.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <10769@cup.portal.com>, BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle) writes:
> Just to update the information contained in Scott Parish's article about
> Graphics Interfaces for the Atari 8-bit systems...
> .....  
> From other reports about Diamond, it seems, just on the basis of
> hearsay, as if Diamond may be the more powerful of the two systems, but
> as I said, I'll be checking them both out soon...
> .....  

I got in on the Atari SIG conference on Delphi  this  past  Tues,  and
Matt Ratcliff made a rare appearance there (he is on Delphi often, but
not in the Conference).  He said  that  he  has  tried  out  the  disk
version  of  Diamond  you refer to, and that it wasn't all that great.
Among other things, he mentioned that it took _40 swaps_ to do a  disk
copy.  Also, it sounded like he had some reliability problems (I don't
recall the details).  He summarized by saying something like, "If  the
cartridge  version isn't a whole lot better, I would give this a less-
than-rave review."  Also, it  sounds  like  GOE  is  ready  to  go  on
cartridge,  besides  being  more  capable  (again  I can't recall more
details).

Nick DiMasi        njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM     ...att!ihlpm!njd    DELPHI: TURBONICK
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