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- only be reproduced and used in accordance with the requirements and limitations
- set forth below. This information may be used by licensees of Amiga DOS in
- combination with their lawful use of licensed copies of Amiga DOS. Reproduction
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- SetPatch (c) Copyright 1990-1992, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-
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- SetPatch 37.39 is designed to improve system operation of the Amiga
- computer with Amiga DOS 2.0. The Update_SetPatch icon or shell-script is
- designed to automatically update the version of SetPatch you are using.
- If you already have an up-to-date SetPatch, Update_SetPatch will inform you
- of that fact and not replace SetPatch.
-
- The key changes this version of SetPatch will bring to your system
- are:
-
- - Exall() emulation for filesystems which do not support the V37+ Exall
- packet is much improved.
-
- - On certain 68000-based Amigas, some software which would fail with an
- alert number of 80000003 is now made to work.
-
- - Many older external floppy drives which might have had problems
- under 2.04 now work.
-
-
- This version of SetPatch addresses the following areas:
-
- - Setpatch opens the 68040.library and reports the fact that it did
- that. The 68040 library will only open on systems equipped with a
- 68040 CPU.
-
- - The IDE driver in the A600 compensates for an internal cache problem
- with Conner CP2024 hard drives.
-
- - On A3000 machines that have 68040 CPUs and are running the 37.175
- version of the ROM OS, and have SCRAM memory, page mode operation is
- turned off.
-
- - CIA interrupt servers are moved to priority 0 if they are lower than
- priority 0.
-
- - Patches console.device CMD_CLEAR to set up registers correctly.
-
- - Patch to remove potential deadlock condition between console device
- and Intuition's DisplayBeep().
-
- - Patch to properly flush buffered file handles which have never been
- read from.
-
- - Blitter interrupts can be erroneously turned on during system
- initialization. SetPatch forces them off.
-
- - The slop area for high density floppies is now correctly
- initialized. This fixes problems when switching between high and
- low density disks on a high-density drive.
-
- - The IAddress field of IDCMP_MOUSEMOVE and IDCMP_MOUSEBUTTONS
- IntuiMessages now has 1.3-compatible values. This fixes some
- programs which are erroneously attempting to extract a GadgetID
- from non-gadget-related IntuiMessages. Such programs crash
- on 68000-based Amigas with a guru number 80000003.
-
- - The line-A exception entry can be inadvertently altered by the ROMs.
- SetPatch corrects this.
-
- - The V37.175 ROM does not unpack the monitor data from the ROM
- correctly. This is corrected by first checking if the monitor
- exists and returning bad mode ID return codes if it does not.
-
- - Open() of paths more than 128 characters long now works.
-
- - The SIGF_SINGLE signal bit is now cleared before allowing an open of
- scsi.device to proceed. Certain versions of scsi.device fail to
- clear that signal before using it.
-
- - Patch to fix some holes in the SharedSemaphore routines.
-
- - Fixes some applications using certain inappropriate functions such
- as SetRGB4() from within an interrupt.
-
- - The 2000 microsecond waits from trackdisk are increased to 3000
- microseconds, in order to allow older A1010 drives to work under 2.0.
-
- - The level-7 interrupt vector is pointed at an RTE instruction, for
- efficiency.
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