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I see that you have just added Claus Brod's version of various bugfixes
for TOS 1.4 Perhaps you are aware of the following, but I suspect you may
not be.
POOLFIX1, 2 & 3 were fixes for a TOS 1.4 problem issued by Atari USA themselves
- versions 1 & 2 themselves contained bugs (!!) and Atari have withdrawn them.
POOLFIX3 is Atari's official fix for the problem.
POOLFIX4 is Brod's attempt to 'improve' on this fix and add one or two
modifications of his own. It has no connection with Atari whatsoever.
In fact, Brod came under very heavy fire for issuing this program under the
name POOLFIX4. He has since apologised and asked that it be distributed
under some other name (I forget what).
Thus POOLFIX4 is in no sense an upgrade to POOLFIX3 - simply an unsupported
alternative.
I see that you have placed POOLFIX4 in m269 in place of the official Atari
POOLFIX3. May I suggest that both of these, and knowledge of their very
different status, should be made available to users?
Please do not take this as criticism - I know you folks have your work cut
out to keep up with all the software that's being circulated, and that
at face value, the new program appears to be an upgrade of the old.
Feel free to attach these remarks to m269.msg, if that makes your job any
easier!
Regards - Russ
[Ed. I've re-instated POOLFIX3 as micros/atari/m415]