INCOMPATIBLE PRODS

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Luckily,    since   the   release   of
Kickstart  2.0,  more  and more people
have  become aware of the need to make
their   productions   compatible  with
newer  versions of the Kickstart, more
RAM      or     faster     processors.
UNfortunately,    there    are   STILL
productions     that    aren't    that
compatible.     We   have   considered
whether  we should try to increase the
compatibility, simply by allowing only
100% forward-compatible productions in
the  Eurocharts.  This would of course
only  apply to newer productions, e.g.
from The Party II and onwards.

So   what  is  a  'future-compatible'-
production?   It's  perfectly OK, if a
production  requires  68040, 10 Mb RAM
and  Kick  3.0, but then it should run
on  68060,  20  Mb RAM and Kick 4.0 as
well!     What    we   refer   to   as
incompatible      productions      are
productions,   that   e.g.   run  with
fake-fast,  but  not  real-fast,  like
Seeing   is   Believing  and  Guardian
Dragon  I  &  II.   We think that many
owners  of  A500+, A600, A1200, A2000,
A4000  etc.,  in short:  everyone that
doesn't  have an A500 1.2/1.3 with 0.5
Mb  chip  and  0.5  Mb fake-fast, will
agree  with us, that instead of trying
to get 20 more dots or 2 more faces in
their  routines,  coders  should  make
sure that their productions run on all
machines.   Commodore  has  given  the
guidelines  to  this  ALL THE TIME, so
everyone knows where the 'traps' are.

Anyway,  we  won't actually remove all
new,  incompatible productions, simply
because  it  is  impossible  for us to
check      everything     with     all
configurations.     We    will    just
encourage  everyone  NOT  to  vote for
these  lame,  lazy-coded, incompatible
productions in the future, thus simply
FORCING  the  coders  to  think  about
compatibility.   Not  the  most greedy
wish for the new year, is it?

         «Brush/LexNova1»