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- From: johnj@echo.philips.nl (John Janssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: TOS 2.06 solves hardware problem of MEGA STE
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.115214.27408@echo.philips.nl>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 11:52:14 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department
- Lines: 31
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- Seeing so much negative things about atari going around, I think it is time
- to tell you my good experience with their service.
-
- After being a 520 ST user for 6 years, I bought a MEGA STE last year.
- Like all other MEGA STE users then, I had those problems with the video
- shifter within several programs. One of the symptoms was that the screen
- flipped around: The .5" (1 cm) which should be at the right side was flipped
- to the left side.
-
- I reported about this on the net then. I even got a new video shifter chip
- from atari here and my local dealer replaced it. However, it did not help,
- the symptoms remained.
-
- At the Dusseldorfer messe I spoke with Atari BENELUX, and they told me that
- I needed TOS 2.06 to solve it. Suspicious as I was, I didn't want to pay
- for a problem in the machine which I reported already when the machine was
- still under warranty- besides, the new TOS 2.06 did not have so many new
- features for a TOS 2.05 user anyway.
-
- After a nice talk, the guy from atari asked my address and he said he would come
- back on it. Few days later, I received a letter, containing the 2.06 ROMS!
-
- And what's more...
- They did solve the screen problem!
-
- John.
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- John Janssen Email: johnj@echo.tds.philips.nl
- The Netherlands or: John.Janssen@atehv.bso.nl
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- Home: +31 77 513177 Atari Mega STE, PC 386 SX, MIDI, Astrology, C
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