25 Nov
2007
25 Nov
'07
9:41 p.m.
Chris M wrote:
does anyone operate one of these? That is does anyone
favor this machine over any of the later models?
Commercially ISTR it being a flop, so that might seem
like a strange question, but there is no lack of
strange birds on this list. If you know what I mean
LOL LOL! Hey maybe I'm stranger then the rest of you
birds LOL LOL LOL!
anyhow interested in the thoughts that find this unit
particularly enjoyable.
It's the first, so historically it has significance. It's also worth a
bit more money than an A500 or A2000 because of the production run
numbers. It's a bit annoying to operate since you need both a kickstart
disk and then an operating system disk to get to the operating system.
(Some bootable games will only require the kickstart.)
As for any *practical* reasons to operate one, there is some software
(circa 1985-1986) that will *only* run on early versions of kickstart.
Most of the games with this requirement have been patched or otherwise
worked around, but not the commercial applications.
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