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From: kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: 1.2 Beta 2
Message-ID: <1209@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 13:55:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1209
Posted: Tue Jun  3 13:55:09 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jun-86 07:22:00 EDT
Reply-To: kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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Summary: misc ramblings

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Hi gang,

    Here's a quick list of bugs in 1.2 beta2 that I discovered shortly after
receipt, note I've only had a quick pass thru the release notes etc., and
this is my first exposure to 1.2:

   1. When the workbench demo program 'spots' is opened up to full screen
      on a 640x400 workbench, some of the ellipses turn out pretty wacko,
      looks like a possible bug in the ellipse routine under certain
      conditions.  Watch it for a bit, they're not hard to spot.

   2. If you remove an unformatted disk you just put in while the light
      is still on, the system just hangs.  1.1 was better at recovering
      here.  This is a slightly worse problem on my system, as my drive
      is a little tempermental and disks do not always seat right at first
      insertion.  They start to wobble, and I like to get the disk out of
      there as soon as possible.  1.1 would just pop up a system requester
      until I tried again and go on as if nothing happened.  1.2 seems to
      hang forever with only the pointer still alive.

   3. Online! seems to have a few problems.  'borderless' display has
      a title bar and only 23 lines (though for some reason, vi on a Vax
      seemed to work ok when I configured as ANSI).  All terminal emulation
      modes except TTY and ANSI seem to do weird stuff, act like the characters
      have parity errors or something  (most characters come out as a '4'
      though a few come out normal)

   4. Was playing around with bunch of stuff, sorry I can't remember the
      exact conditions, but I got a guru-error-like message at the top of
      the screen, indicating RAM: was full.  Part of the message was cut
      of by the top border line of the error box making it a bit hard to
      read.

1.2 first impressions:

     Seems faster. I like the new drag bar design, as it flickers a lot
     less in hi-res interlace, wish the scroll bars and window borders would
     follow suit.  Very glad to see the Font Editor (though didn't there
     used to be one back in version 28? this is the first time I saw one
     that worked).  Can't figure out how to close that cute new utility,
     'Freemap' when I don't want it anymore.  Beta2 docs are pretty good,
     all on disk, but docs on some stuff seems to be missing.  Reference
     to subdirectory 'autodocs' with a 'readme' file in the beta1 notes,
     no directory of that name on any of the disks.  Except
     for 'emacs' and 'update', the tools disk has no docs on anything
     included, but since this is the 'Wack disk, use at your own risk'
     I guess that is at least consistant with the previous releases.
     Anybody know what 'drip' does?  Source is included, but almost no
     comments, hard to tell what it's supposed to do.  'ColorP' is a
     little better, but haven't figured out what parameters it wants.
     Parameters for 'setparallel' would be useful too.  Haven't found
     reference to them yet.  Lotsa new stuff to explore, umpteen new
     library calls.  Plenty new fun things to try out.

Keith Doyle