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From: SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TOS 1.4
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Date: 24 Feb 90 14:57:15 GMT
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I Got a phone call from Atari Canada last week, TOS 1.4 ROMS are
in.  After some dithering, I ordered the 6 ROM set, and they
arrived yesterday with some photocopied sheets.  One was the blurb
about Control-Drag (file move) & etc, one appeared to be only
relavent to MEGA machines, and the last one was the most scary. It
was a mapping of chip numbers to sockets (which chips go into which
sockets), but the sokcet numbers did not make any sense in my
1040STf.  I do not have H1, L0, ... nor were my ROM sockets
labelled U3,6,9,4,7,and 10 (mine are U2-U7).  Close examination of
the old roms revealed that they were in numerical order (160-165 in
sockets U2-U7), so taking a deep breath, I inserted the new ones
(635-640) in that sequence as well. I found the chips harder to
install than memory chips (stiffer insertion, bent a leg on one
chip, got it straitened out OK).

It all works as advertised.  The COPY FILES dialogue looks
different, (likewise the Desktop Info, but no rainbow on my mono
screen ;-).  It seems the screen draws are even faster (?) than
before, and certainly Show Info on a disk (even floppy) is faster.
I should have done some timings before I installed 1.4, darned if
I'll swap back to get them now!  Nothing broke.  RAMdisks are OK,
UniTerm is as good as ever (Thanks once more Simon), WordPerfect is
as ugly as ever, etc, etc.  All in all, I'm happy.  One strange
thing:

I have a CLI.TOS, which used to be installed as an application to
be called when I double-clicked a .BAT file.   With TOS1.4, when I
clicked on the .BAT file, the screen cleared, a slight pause, then
the desktop came back, the BAT file was not run!  De-Installing the
Application (Hey could I do that before?  Don't think so), and
re-installing it (just re-installing it didn't help) caused all to
be normal again.  Had to do that on several disks.  Other installed
applications were OK.  Curious, and a minor bother.

Thanks Alan and Co, things look good.  Probably adds another year or
so to the useful life of my machine. .. Oh yeah, in TOS 1.99 or
whatever, maybe you can set things up so that newly-installed disk
icons don't come up under an open window - it's still an unfriendly
thing to do, don't you think?


P.S.  Forced re-read of floppy DIR & FAT when you press ESC is OK, and
      necessary for people using old DOS formatted disks, but something
      not mentioned here (that I've seen), is that DOS 4.1 DOES put a
      serial number on the disk!

/PJ                                                 SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca
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