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From: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Beta testers wanted
Message-ID: <2145@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 01:30:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.2145
Posted: Mon Sep  7 01:30:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Sep-87 02:21:18 EDT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Keywords: Amiga Transformer, Son of ATPatch

[wonder what would happen if I put something *really* important here?]

Several months back I posted a patch for the Amiga Transformer to allow it
to run under Workbench 1.2. I've received enough "attaboys" that I've
decided to try to out-do myself. 

There were three major areas which the original patch did not address, or
did not address them in ways I felt comfortable with:

1. The original patch would allow Transformer to be used with WB 1.2, but
you could not go back to 1.1, and presumably another patch would be
necessary if (when?) 1.3 comes out.

2. The original patch was done with no expansion memory, and has been shown
later to not work particularly well with it.

3. The original patch did not address the issue of 68000/68010
incompatibility.

Well, after a fair bit of, well, let's face it, hacking, I've been able to
come up with another patch which I think will solve all three of the
original patch's shortcomings.

The problem is that I do not wish to waste net bandwidth with a program
which is not reasonably well debugged. At this time, the only expansion RAM
I have is the extra 256K you get with the Kickstart Eliminator. While the
new patch appropriately handles this memory, I hardly consider it to have
had a full test unless I can get a few kind souls to try it out with some
other types of expansion RAM. (BTW, points 1 and 3 above have been
reasonably well tested and I believe the problems to have been solved).

So here is the question: Do you have a) some expansion RAM, b) Amiga
Transformer, and c) a C compiler, and would you be interested in testing my
new patch?

If the answer to all of the above is "yes" I'd like to hear from you
(preferably via e-mail, of course). I'd like to pick some representative
types of expansion RAM (please let me know whether it's auto-config or not)
and someone with both the Lattice and Manx C compilers. (BTW, I'm using
Manx 3.40a, so I'm reasonably sure it will work with that one).

(Of course, if anyone from C-A would care to try it with WB 1.3, I'd
appreciate that, too ;-) )

Then, when I'm satisfied that all is well, I will be posting the new patch 
to both the sources and binaries newsgroups.

Thanks in advance.
Phil
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tektronix!tekigm2!phils                                              - Spock
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