Date   : Tue, 30 Aug 1994 16:17:33 +0100
From   : jfid@... (James Fidell)
Subject: Re: NOTHING ELSE WORKS...!!!!

lamcw wrote:

> the files copied over okay. well, arcadians may run without any hitches
> but i reckon i just got lucky. i tried WHITE KNIGHT chess program but it
> crashes during its move computation... CHUCKIE EGG seems okay but because
> of the way i haven't allowed for the simultaneous depression of 2 keys, i 
> can't jump to the left or right, which is quite a disadvantage. ZALAGA just
> bombs out with an invalid opcode.

Shame.  I really used to like Zalaga.

> SNAPPER and PLANETOIDS need BCD. REVS (ha ha) ... wow the screen is a MESS!
> WORDWISE PLUS seems to work but only after i forbade my emulator to write
> to hi memory (0x8000 to 0xffff) unless poking SHEILA (excuse me...). a lot
> of ROMs attempt to corrupt themselves because of the popularity of sideways
> RAM. and before you ask... no, i didn't try ELITE!!!

Revs uses a multi-mode screen (like Elite), apparently.

James.

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