BUGS AND UPGRADES  ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ##  DELUXE PAINT IV ECP sent me the following information about this classis product now out in the HAM (4096 colour) version: The upgrade costs $100, and you must send the title page of your manual. This applies to owners of all previous versions of DPaint Send to: ECP, Deluxe Paint IV Upgrade, P O Box 539, Ashmore City, Qld 4214. Tel: 075 911388.  CYGNUS ED PATCH This patch will upgrade Cygnus Ed to V. 2.12, ie fully compatible with Workbench 2.04. From: Desktop Utilities Tel: 062 396658  MAXIPLAN 2.x Send back original program disks, along wiht $50 to DataFlow who then send to the US for the latest copy, which is about 2.2 in the US. This applies to any Maxiplan owner/version. Tel: (02) 3316153. Ask for Donna.  QUARTERBACK BACKUP & Q'BACK TOOLS  Now handled by New Horizons software, QBT - NO cost to upgrade to V. 1.5. QB - no cost 4.0 to 4.3. Send back original disk and write "upgrade' on the envelope. I just got mine (6 months later!) recently.  SCRIBBLE PLATINUM EDITION  There is a new version available which handles WB2 better and addresses a couple of other problems too. Send US$9.95 with master disks if you're a registered user to: Micro-Systems Software, 12798 Forest Hill Blvd., Ste. 202, West Palm Beach, FL 33414. Tel: 407 790 0772.  C LTD PURCHASERS  Those trusting souls who ended up with a piece of C Ltd hardware, and who felt orphaned when the company self-destructed, can now feel a little better - you may be able to get some kind of support from the people who picked up all rights to C Ltd's product line, ie Micro-Dyn, who also produce Kronos and SCSI hard drive controllers. More info from Micro-Dyn, 2011 S. Washington, Witchita KS 67211. Tel: 316 265 2661.  NEW AMIGAVISION RELEASE  AmigaVision 1.7Z, has now been released by Commodore US. AmigaVision 1.7Z offers: - some new device drivers (including the NEC PC-VCR) - minor bug fixes from 1.53G - the ability to 'chain' applications together or 'call' applications - slightly improved SMUS playing capabilities - some added expression editor functions [Ed. -- Word is that the new version has a new manual and that new A3000 units are being manufactured with the upgrade. An upgrade path is not yet in place and since there is a new manual, there will most likely be a fee for upgrading. A runtime player is still not available.]  KDV VIRUS KILLER (Mike Hansell's)  [Thanks to Greg Chrystal for this info.] KDV Update #2 has been released Latest versions as of writing: KDV3 rev 2.22 KDV5 rev 2.09 Disk_Slave 1.32 KDV3 now has a learn facility. It can be 'taught' to recognise certain bootblocks as non-standard, but not virus infected.  BLUE RIBBON INFO  What was Blue Ribbon Bakery, Inc., maker of Bars & Pipes, etc., is now Blue Ribbon SoundWorks, Ltd, with a new address: 1293 Briardale NE Atlanta, Georgia 30306 USA Tel: 404 377 1514 Fax: 404 377 2277  BARS & PIPES SWAP/UPGRADE  Send in the cover page of any Amiga music program and get the original Bars&Pipes for US$99, and the Professional version for $199. You can also use credit cards.  PROWRITE 3.2 WITH POSTSCRIPT  ProWrite used to have ProScript, a separate program, for Postscript output, and now it's built in and none too soon. Standard features now include: multiple columns, graphic imports, manual text wrap round graphics, voice playback, all Amiga fonts, and macros with ARexx. Ships at the end of September with RRP US$175. Thanks to Ray Markham for the following info: This is a copy of a letter from SAS Institute of Australia, dated 27 June 1991.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Registered User, Subject: SAS/C Compiler for AmigaDOS (formerly Lattice C Compiler Registration SAS Institute Inc. acquired Lattice Inc. in 1986, and since then Lattice has been operating as a wholly owned subsidiary. From release 5.10, the Lattice C Compiler was renamed to the SAS/C Compiler for AmigaDOS. SAS Institute is one of the worlds largest software vendors. SAS software is used in over 80% of mainframe sites in Australia, as well as on minicomputers, workstations, and personal computers. In June, 1990 we decided to consolidate our C product efforts in our Cary, NC (USA) headquarters. From that date, all Australian administrative and technical support for the compiler is being provided by SAS Institute Australia. If you have any technical queries, please contact SAS Institute Australia, ask for Amiga Technical Support, and have your registration details available. If you are sending a fax, please include a telephone number where you can be contacted during normal office hours. The current version of the SAS/C Compiler for AmigaDOS is 5.10A. Any registered user of version 5.10 of the compiler is eligable to receive a free upgrade to 5.10A. A disk containing the upgrade will be mailed out on request. If you know of any users of the compiler who may not have received this letter, please ask them to contact SAS Institute Australia. All Australian users must be registered with SAS Institute Australia by October 1991 in order to be eligable for further upgrades. Yours sincerely SAS INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well that was it. I guess it may be a little late, but any one who fits into this category, (owning 5.10+ but not yet registered) should contact the SAS Institute Australia and try to work something out. SAS Institute Australia Pty. Ltd. Address and other details are: 300 Burns Bay Road Private Bag No. 52 LANE COVE NSW 2066 Telephone (02)428 0428 Fax (02)418 7211 A.C.N. 002 287 247  ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ##  BUGS   QUARTERBACK 1.5 Using the "Volume Reorganisation" option, first got a dud disk error, then with another copy got the message that all was successful, but almost half the icons were missing - although a directory utility showed that they were there. This is on WB2 latest version, V. 2.04. From Noel Fuller via Mark Gladding's AMSMAG disk-magazine: **Important note to users of Workbench 2.0: The standard EVAL command fails to strip leading zeroes from 8 and 9 - not fixed in workbench version 37.66. Test by entering: Eval 08 + 1 Result should be 9, not 0. ***Users of earlier versions than workbench 2.04: Noel suggests that you use the arp search command as well as eval, due to some mysterious bug.  WORKBENCH 2.04 RAD no longer exists because there is no handler or device for it... and why not? It was very useful. This makes REMRAD, the CLI command, useless of course.  ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ##