🚀 go-pugleaf

Landon Dyer writes:
>> As I understand, it will NOT be. The only thing Atari has admitted, is
>> that they have/are/will be working on a new version of GEMDOS for release
>> some time in the future, as far as we know this could just be another proof
>> for the amount of competence in HYPE that Atari has.
>You could claim I'm lying, but we REALLY ARE doing a re-write.  And
>it's harder than it sounds to make bug fixes to code that's:
>
>        (1) everywhere;
>        (2) in ROM;
>
>... but we don't expect you to sympathize.  :-)
Oh yes I do sympathize! Landon, I didn't want to imply that anybody
at Atari would lie about such a thing, it's just that the history
of the fixes for the ST series would suggest that even if completed,
a GEMDOS rewrite would never be distributed. Sorry for the (not Atari
related) bad temper I was in when I wrote that message.

>>         HD boot fix: been available Atari internally for a long time,
>>                      but probably will never be distributed. HDB 2.3
>>                      is probably better anyway!

>It has been done since September of 1986.  I have been trying to push
>it out the door ever since.  Not my fault -- put 22 cents to work and
>send a letter to Leonard Tramiel.
Is there any sensible marketing reason for this???????????????????????


                            Simon Poole
                            K538915.CZHRZU1A.BITNET

PS: I still think Atari is able to do a good job of customer support,
    as I've mentioned before, the September 86 fix to HDX was by my
    dealer a month later! (This didn't stop the people here from selling
    HD's with the old version!)