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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Repost due to SCORE failure (LONG)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 18:34:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 18:34:18 1987
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> As I understand, it will NOT be. The only thing Atari has admitted, is
> that they have/are/will be working on a new version of GEMDOS for release
> some time in the future, as far as we know this could just be another proof
> for the amount of competence in HYPE that Atari has.
> BTW a more supicous person than I am, could suggest that Atari has been
> systematically avoiding the publishing of fixes:

You could claim I'm lying, but we REALLY ARE doing a re-write.  And
it's harder than it sounds to make bug fixes to code that's:

	(1) everywhere;
	(2) in ROM;

... but we don't expect you to sympathize.  :-)


>         HD boot fix: been available Atari internally for a long time,
>                      but probably will never be distributed. HDB 2.3
>                      is probably better anyway!

It has been done since September of 1986.  I have been trying to push
it out the door ever since.  Not my fault -- put 22 cents to work and
send a letter to Leonard Tramiel.


>         40 folder fix: FOLDRXXX was obviously procduced as a quick
>                        'save our face' operation after GEMBOOT was
>                        made avaiable, with no intent on ever really
>                        distributing it (a nice touch was the way
>                        Atari leaked it out that they had a fix via
>                        Atari Germany, just to complain later it had been
>                        pirated!).

It was produced as an "Oh, of course!" in a couple of hours, and
finished in mid-Febuary of 1987.  I don't give a damn about saving
Atari's face -- but I *do* care about the quality of the software on
the ST.  Again, it is stalled somewhere in management, so get out your
book of stamps and start writing....

-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation	       {sun,amdcad,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those	     BUSINESS
of Atari or the AI software that has taken over my brain.	     IS
Yow! I am waiting for my warranty-expired interrupt!		     HELL