From: Mark Benson (markbenson_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 12:07:15 PST
On Nov 3, 2003, at 07:22 pm, shannon johnson wrote:
> Not so fast on the Nintendo Games, Nintendo seems to be re-releaseing
> its
> popular early games for the new Gameboy systems (BTW very cool). So
> that
> puts Nintendo games in a grey area becasue the game can be ported over
> to
> the Gameboy.
In the case of GameBoy cartridges, they still work in the GameBoy
Advance, which was released in 2001, and will likely be usable in some
form on the new GBA2 and the next generation GameBoy.
> They are therefor avalible for a current platfrom sould the
> current owners of the various title desire to. Now, it appears that
> Atari
> games have been totally abondoned by their owners, unless someone is
> trying
> to put them on cellphones and such.
The 'console' games, yes. The Atari ST used 3.5" floppies so your out
of luck there ;)
As a totally unrelated note the RISC Processor in the GameBoy Advance
is slower than that in the MP130... Fascinating no?
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