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From: MFAGKCHR@HMARL5.BITNET
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Subject: Re: Problems with dutch TOS 1.4
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Date: 26 Mar 90 12:37:00 GMT
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Hello,

I phoned the shop where I bougt the mega-2 with the dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs,
I wrote about before. They told me atari the ROMs were new. They had
only recently received UK and dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs. These have not been
delivered before. Only sets of six 34 K ROMs are available, so they
had to do some soldering to get these in a mega.

They told me, they had problems with the UK ROMs themselves. In fact they lost
their whole Calamus directory on a megafile 60. They installed the ROMs in a
mega-4 which had worked correctly until then. They had not used the CBHD driver
or Gulam. So I think these programs can not be related to the problem. I
received a megafile 20 from them which had been used with this mega 4 as a
temporary solution (atari does not deliver much in Holland at the moment), the
FAT and Directory structure of that disk had been ruined completely. In fact I
tried to repait this structure using the dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs, and did not
succeed. At that moment I expected the disk to be bad, and send it back.

These problems caused me to resubscribe to the info-atari16 digests
on BITNET. But I'm not sure whether I will receive them. Anyhow,
I have not received many reactions to this problem yet. Please send
important information to me directly.

It might be important to state that the problems are occur very often.
They are not occasional harddisk errors. I do not think that anybody
who does serious work on the ST can have missed them. So, if the problem
is caused by TOS 1.4 it must be an new problem. I do not think that
the previous US and German ROMs contain it.

I did look into the contents of the dutch ROMs. There is some rubish there
like JIM LOVES JENEANE. Is this true for the US ROMs as well? Or did
someone fool with it.

ATARI are you listening? I do not want to start a world wide rumour,
I just want to get rid of the problems. Please send me any info that
might help. I could even send a dump of the dutch ROMs to you, if
that might help.

                        Chris Evelo
                        MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET)