Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!eric From: eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Helpful 2.0 Advice (was Re: A3000 Shipping) Keywords: bugs, 2.0, A3000, Transcript, GoldDisk Message-ID: <13180@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 20:42:38 GMT References: <534@beguine.UUCP> <13139@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: eric@cbmvax (Eric Cotton) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <13139@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna) writes: >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. Further details: There did (briefly) exist an old version of the Time editor that behaved in the way described above. The final released version is 36.18. Accept no substitutes. -- Eric Cotton Commodore-Amiga (215) 431-9100 1200 Wilson Drive {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!eric West Chester, PA 19380 "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."