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From: consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Helpful 2.0 Advice (was Re: A3000 Shipping)
Keywords: bugs, 2.0, A3000, Transcript, GoldDisk
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Date: 12 Jul 90 00:32:54 GMT
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|>In article <13139@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna) writes:
|>>**** 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.
|>

I am using the version listed above. (36.141, 36.68).

|>	Peter, it seems to me that release 2.0 BROKE many things
|>that worked in Beta. Whap!, the compuserve navigator, worked fine
|>under beta 2.0 on a 2500/20. Now it won't work on the A3000.
|>Perhaps it is the A3000 itself, maybe. There is also PenPal,
|>which the people at Softwood were very surprised to hear didn't
|>work anymore. It did work under their beta versions, though.
|>

                               
	Not to mention the Janus software from Commodore's own
BridgeBoard! It has not worked at all for me under WB 2.0! I've
heard rumors that it had no compatibility problems with the
Beta 2.0, which is why this bug was never detected!

				\marc
	
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