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From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <1151@atari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 16:28:56 GMT
References: <3e303db7.52e@apollo.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <3e303db7.52e@apollo.COM>, gaz@apollo.COM (Gary Zaidenweber) says:
> 
> Allen, Roy and Ken:
> You're whetting my (and probably others') appetite for the new
> ROMS. Naturally some bugs have shown up now that you're in Beta
> test and you probably have some idea how to fix them. So,  Please
>  give us a preliminary date and the terms for its
> release. Also, please give us a new list of bugs fixed and not
> fixed (the last one I saw was several months ago.)

The Developer Release is essentially now available via Cindy Claveran for
$20. This include TOS 1.4 DR on Floppy, release notes, revision to MadMac, 
revision to "aln" linker, first release of own own "db" object level debugger,
Product Tracking System interface and guide, and SFP004 (68881) deevloper
kit with demos. The $20 deal is only available to registered developers.
Details are in the latest Atari Forum (Developer Newsletter) which was mailed 
earlier this week.
The Developer Release contains many improvements and fixes over the original
Beta release of mid-May, but we do know of some discrepancies. These will be
fixed before committing to ROM, and I intend to put a short "known problem"
list in these kits, so maybe we won't have to have worldwide postings. The
Developer Version of TOS 1.4 is considered "unsupported", but this is only
because the ROM version (and its associated RAM version) must be held
as the definitive work. The Developer Release has an Alert box to this
effect on booting.

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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation
Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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