Re: Newbie Mint Questions

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Mon, 11 May 1998 07:14:25 -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

MR> >> vcons. On the other, I'm sick of the focus on Falcon-specific hardware
MR> >
MR> >I can't see anything wrong in using the Falcon's facilities,
MR> >especially when it's so easy as in this case.
MR>
MR>In this case, working mostly on improvements that benefit only Falcon
MR>users and virtually abandon ST/TT in recent developments...

:-))) I can't believe what I am reading here.

1) Falcon owners improve programs to use Falcon specific features. TT
users do the same for TT hardware. That's absolutely normal - you can't
force me to add special support for TT when I don't have such machine.
If there's more active Falcon programmers than TT ones, then again we
(as Falcon users) can't do anything to change that. It's up to TT
users/programmers to do something with it.

2) Falcon is the newest Atari hardware, and coincidentaly the most
powerful and expansible. That's why there's more improvements that are
focused on Falcon.

You can also think that TT was already properly supported as it's been
here for 8 years, while Falcon is younger and so it's just getting
really supported by software.

Petr
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