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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Helpful 2.0 Advice (was Re: A3000 Shipping)
Keywords: bugs, 2.0, A3000, Transcript, GoldDisk
Message-ID: <13139@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 23:35:12 GMT
References: <534@beguine.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <534@beguine.UUCP> Bill.Frandsen@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
>Just the other evening, I got to work with a A3000 in 2.0 mode.  The dealer
>who was demoing it had just gotten a shipment of 12 AmigaVision
>packages in on Tuesday, and had also just received an update to 2.0 and
>placed it on his A3000.  However, as he noticed (as well as myself), more
>things were breaking under this newest version of 2.0.  On of them being
>Commodore's own Preferences/SetClock-Calendar (forgot what the icon's name
>was).  If you clicked on Save, Use, or Cancel, it would jump the date back
>6 days or so, back to the first of the month, and would not allow you to
>exit with any of the 3 gadgets.  However, the close gadget in the corner
>of the window would let you shut down the program. 

Umm, interesting.  For a while now, the "Time Preferences" program has
not had a close gadget.  Are you sure the dealer didn't "downgrade" his
system, or perhaps is mixing one beta version of Kickstart with a different
beta version of Workbench?  Make sure that they both are from the same
set, and preferably the release versions.  Type "version" from the Shell,
or use the Workbench "Version" menu option.  You should see
Kickstart 36.141, Workbench 36.68.  Accept nothing less.


**** HELPFUL NOTE FOR ALL OF US ****

If you are making observations about the behavior of the 2.0 release,
please supply the two version numbers your machine reports when you
take the steps I described.  Also note that a lot of compatibility problems
were fixed or worked around in the Release 2.0, which has the numbers
Kickstart 36.141, Workbench 36.68.

     Peter
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