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- Now the FLOP_FIX: (would be nice if you add this or a similar text
- to the archive)
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- This program fixes some very bad bugs in the floppy routines of
- TOS2.06, 3.06, 4.00, 4.01, 4.02, 4.04. I can not understand how
- it is possible to insert so much bugs in only some kByte of code -
- by only adding some lines in the language C. I think it was a
- very bad programmer (or a typist, not a programmer). I can not
- understand that Atari does not distribute this patch as an offical
- one. I tried it more than once (my first bug report I think
- has gone directly in the trash can, otherwise these bugs would not
- be present in the Falcon TOS).
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- These bugs will bite you very hard if you use above TOS versions
- and have two disc drives. But one disc drive is enough to get in
- touch with these bugs too.
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- Only some examples:
- try to copy a HD (1.44MB) disc on a Falcon using the desktop
- disccopy function. You will get an error message before writing
- the destination and your desktop becomes a bit unnormal (eg changed
- sizes of characters). The same result you will get using some
- copy or format programs which are correct, but do not work around
- this TOS-bugs.
- try to display a longer file from a write protected disc drive B:
- You continue after the floppy motor stopped (and the light
- turned off). The motor will start and an error message will be
- displayed (in German: "LESEFEHLER", direct translation: read error)
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- This errors are caused by the try to make the disc-changed-detection
- more relayable connected with the unability of the programmer.
- Now there are disc changes assumed which never took place and some memory
- contends can be destroyed.
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- Sorry for so much critics, but I can not understand this behavior of
- Atari. (The suitable words I know only in German!)
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- Here the UUE (only German docs if I remember correctly)
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