5th January 2001

Paul Mountsey had just installed a BlizzardPPC '040 in his towered A1200 but was having problems with SetPatch crashing in the startup. We first tried updating the 680x0 libraries (which are loaded by SetPatch) to the latest version but this didn't cure the problem. Remembering similar problems Mick Sutton had when he first got his PPC we added Run >NIL: in front of SetPatch in Paul's startup-sequence and then the machine booted reliably. We were unable to update the PPC's flash ROM at the meeting but we hope doing so in the future will give a permanent cure.

Alf Whitfield brought his A4000 along again now with OS3.9 sucessfully installed. At the meeting two problems came to light that could possibly be due to OS3.9. Firstly Alf could not get DrawStudio (the excellent structured drawing program now available from Kickstart) to run, the loading window appeared and then nothing. He tried re-installing but still had no joy. Alf suspected that it might be a disk related problem so he tried using QuarterBackTools to repair the drive, loads of errors appeared and eventually he had to cancel leaving the disk "BAD". After reformating we tried the QBT Analyse function and even that caused the drive to go bad so it looks like QBT may disagree with the OS3.9 version of FastFileSystem. Robert now has OS3.9 so he will be trying DrawStudio with it tomorrow.

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