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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: HELP COMMODORE MY IADDRESS IS FULL OF EELS
- Summary: BLAZEMONGER leaks out of .advocacy into .misc
- Date: 24 Jun 92 16:00:41 GMT
-
- You people are right. Amiga OS 2.04 is FULL of bugs. Last time I
- counted, there were at least 12,784. I don't understand why Commodore
- doesn't fix them. All of my software is running wrong under 2.04 and I
- am P*SSED. Here are some examples.
-
- I used to run BLAZEMONGER VII under 1.3, and it ran fine. However,
- when I run it under 2.04, some very mysterious things happen. First of all,
- the BLAZEMONGER title screen has changed -- it now says "Running under
- 2.04", which it never did before. This is obviously an OS bug. Second,
- whenever I press the "fire" button, a requester pops up and says "YOU ARE A
- PIRATE SCUM", and I get a large electric shock. I don't understand why this
- is happening, since my friend said he deprotected the game before he gave me
- a copy.
-
- Lots of my other programs stopped working under 2.04, too. My text
- editor totally barfed. On my Amiga 500 with 1.3, it runs fine. So I took a
- copy of the editor to my local dealer to see if it would run on the A3000
- (2.04) there. Nope -- the file requester was totally hosed. It couldn't
- find ANY OF MY FILES on the store's hard disk. The dealer tried to make
- lame excuses, like that my files were AT HOME, but he's a total dweeb.
-
- Even CBM's own programs are buggy. For example, C:Version used to
- work fine under 1.3. Under 2.04, it prints numbers that are TOO HIGH...
- all the way up in the 37's. This is obviously a bug in the IEEE math
- libraries.
-
- Also, the programs that *I* wrote aren't even running. And these
- programs are totally BUG-FREE. I mean, I have this great "security
- identification" program that jumps to location 0x0000000B of the ROM and
- etches my name onto the silicon. Under 2.04, I get an instant GURU, and
- all the blue smoke leaks out of the Amiga case. Totally lame.
-
- And there's this AWESOME PD display hack called "IAddress_Violator"
- that doesn't run AT ALL under 2.04. Freakin' Commodore does it again.
-
- Even worse, under 2.04, my HARDWARE doesn't even work! After
- installing the new ROM myself, I tried to boot the Amiga but it wouldn't
- come up. It didn't even give me a blank screen. This is another blatant
- OS bug because the software should detect when the computer is down and
- then reboot automatically. And don't accuse me of installing the ROM
- wrong because I made sure it was installed VERY FIRMLY by pounding it
- with a hammer. I even removed all those extra pins that stuck out over
- the edge.
-
- I called Commodore last week to complain about the bugs. They are
- such idiots on the telephone. I called up and asked to speak with Irving
- Gould, who is the head of CATS. They said he was "busy" -- yeah, right.
- Then they tried to put one of their "tech" people on the phone, but I'm sick
- of that shit, so I hung up in their faces. What a bunch of jerks.
-
- That's it. I've had enough. I'm giving up computers forever and
- becoming a nun.
-
- Dan
-
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- | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center |
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- Copyright 1992 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed as long as it is distributed in its
- entirety. It may not be included in any publication without the written
- permission of the author. So nyaaah.
-