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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 Incompatibility List: In europe only?
Message-ID: <1751@atari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 22:45:00 GMT
References: <10079@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <267@mirsa.inria.fr> <269@mirsa.inria.fr>
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colas@trinidad.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:
> In article <10079@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>, hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu
> (Howard Chu) writes:
>> In article <267@mirsa.inria.fr> colas@trinidad.inria.fr (Colas
>> Nahaboo) writes:

... and so on ...

I am concerned about the fact that programs work for some people under
TOS 1.4 and not for others.  Either (A) the program is different or (B)
the TOS is different.

People, the only official TOS 1.4 release is dated 4/16/89.  You can
see the date in the ROM by dumping offset $18 from the start of the ROM
(which is $FC0000 on ST, but not STe!) ... you should see the date as
four hex bytes: 04 16 19 89.  If you don't see this, you don't have the
right version.

You should GET the right version: the old ones are inferior, and  the
incompatibilities which caused some of these programs to fail might
have been fixed in the released version - that would explain a lot of
this confusion.

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