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From: GHGAEEM@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: A590/NoiseTracker bug
Message-ID: <91052.132925GHGAEEM@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 21 Feb 91 13:28:25 GMT
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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         I don't really know if this message should be here, but I've seen
that others also post their problems relating to hard/software combinations
here, so ...

         I've got an A590 20MB XT interface harddisk.  I know the thing is
VERY slow, but that is (for once) not the problem.  The question is : why do
some programs (NoiseTracker, SoundTracker < v2.4, IFFConv of Kefrens I think)
don't get the keyboard input anymore ?  I've tried to scan the programs for
their input routines, but came up with nothing at all ... They don't use an
interrupt to access the hardware, they obviously do not use documented features
of KickStart (otherwise it should work), they do not access the keyboard
serial data register (for as far as I can tell) ... SO WHAT DO THEY DO AND HOW
CAN I FIX IT ?

         I've got some comments on the non-disclosure agreement of commodore.
I'm no developer and I'm not really interested in 2.0, but I don't think C= is
doing the right thing by not making the Kickstart 2.0 available to all Amiga
users.  Ok, there are no bugfree versions yet, but will there ever be ?  By
not giving the 'old' Amiga fans the posibility to run Kickstart 2.0, you are
spliting up the Amiga world ... One of the problems I have to handle on my 500
is that a lot of P.D. soft doesn't work under 1.3 anymore and a friend of mine
says that there's to much software that doesn't run under 2.0.  For my friend
there's no problem, on his 3000 he can use Kick 1.3, but for me there's no
legal solution yet ... I'm stuck with a powerfull machine who's memory banks
are visited by the guru a bit too often ...

         So, that's my point of view ... I hope C= will release the new Kick
2.0 for the 500 and 2000 in the near future |  Never-the-less I'll stay an
Amiga freak for ever (at least until there's a better computer |)