09 February 2019, 05:19 | #781 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
The joke is on your hysteric claims, but I will answer you:
Kickstart 1.2 had a bug which prevented Zorro II hardware from autobooting. It took Commodore about two years to fix it. The first Amiga 600s that were sold, could not use the pcmcia and the IDE interfaces. It took them several kickstart releases to fix both issues. Customers had to buy them separately (Kickstart 2.x era). And these are the ones that I can remember right now, there are many others. Also this was in a time when Commodore was in charge, and they were a multi million dollar company with plenty of resources. |
09 February 2019, 05:54 | #782 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
None of the bugs you mentioned were potentially dangerous, as in the system appearing to work normally, but "randomly" doing things it should not do.
|
09 February 2019, 05:56 | #783 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
|
09 February 2019, 05:57 | #784 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
But they don't screw up your files.
The big problem with this bug, is exactly that it is so subtle. I know one bug that is similarly dangerous, the max transfer bug. But it only affects certain IDE controller, and is easy to work around. Last edited by kolla; 09 February 2019 at 06:04. |
09 February 2019, 06:12 | #785 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
If you are looking for data altering bugs then you can look at amigaos 3.5 and 3.9 that had issues with drive geometry.
Then any app in those Oses that calculated drive space reported negative/weird numbers. It even broke the Installer that could not calculate properly the free drive space available. Large drive support was a Titanic failure that never got fixed during the lifetime of 3.5 and 3.9. And was one of their main features. |
09 February 2019, 06:57 | #786 |
Registered User
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Delta, Canada
Posts: 192
|
So to keep with tradition, we should accept bad bugs, not get fixes for years, keep paying and also have the source hidden, hmmm... to prevent people from fixing it themselves?
Well, at least I can deny you the "keep paying" part. I am happy to use the old version I have until I can get AROS up on my machine. |
09 February 2019, 07:23 | #787 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
We are talking about bugs in kickstarts, OS 3.5 and 3.9 did not come with kickstarts.
I have seen scripts for patching that rely on certain version of source file being available, and that abort when it's not the case. Some of these versions of patch still output an empty file instead of a patched file. With v46 shell, the patch script will continue, and potentially overwrite the file it attempts to patch with an empty file... |
09 February 2019, 07:28 | #788 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
|
09 February 2019, 07:39 | #789 | |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
Quote:
You should not accept anything, since you said you are not paying, hence you are not a customer. But you can use, patch and fix yourself whatever you want in any OS you like. If you want open source you can go the AROS route, or even better, all the way up to Linux. It is your choice. And you don't deny me of anything. I don't get anything from you. |
|
09 February 2019, 07:39 | #790 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
Here is an example of a completely randomly chosen script from aminet...
Code:
ExtractModule FROM "DEVS:AmigaOS ROM Update" Module 19 TO T:Shell-Seg spatch -oT:Shell-Seg.new -pShell.pch T:Shell-Seg copy T:Shell-Seg.new to L:Shell-Seg |
09 February 2019, 07:44 | #791 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
|
09 February 2019, 07:56 | #792 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
Yes, I know and understand that people are impatient.
I expect it to be released very soon. I cannot confirm any date because we are trying to make sure we have tested the update enough. And when can you say that enough is enough? More if you consider we are not thousands of developers and testers. In my personal opinion (others may differ) we are almost ready, some little testing remains, but definately not much. |
09 February 2019, 08:00 | #793 | |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
Quote:
I dont know how things work with OS4. |
|
09 February 2019, 08:17 | #794 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
Are updates only for "registered" buyers?
Last edited by kolla; 09 February 2019 at 08:25. |
09 February 2019, 08:23 | #795 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
|
09 February 2019, 08:34 | #796 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
AmigaOS 3.1.4 withdrawn from market after Amiga
|
09 February 2019, 08:52 | #797 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
|
09 February 2019, 09:39 | #798 |
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Posts: 1,893
|
|
09 February 2019, 11:33 | #799 |
BoingBagged
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The South of nowhere
Age: 46
Posts: 2,358
|
|
09 February 2019, 15:56 | #800 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,307
|
Quote:
Btw. I'm searching my HD for " cd " and until now nothing dangerous found. I'll tell if there is a hit. |
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[Withdrawn] FS Blizzard 1230 50 MHz 32 MB RAM | Amiga030 | MarketPlace | 1 | 06 September 2016 08:50 |
Is E3B done in the Amiga market? | source | Hardware mods | 3 | 16 February 2015 18:59 |
The AMIGA Market value and your collection values | Gordon | Amiga scene | 12 | 11 September 2009 17:25 |
Sky News: 3.5" floppies to be withdrawn from shelves | Dastardly | News | 11 | 01 February 2007 12:26 |
Market Place or Amiga Stuff for Free? | martin-flash | MarketPlace | 2 | 02 November 2005 17:14 |
|
|