Re: A9 Home

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David Pitt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <481ffc454f.pittdj+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Pitt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

The whole OS is in beta and has been for rather too long. There have
been no updates of any sort since July last year.

David, that is not true.

The substantive facts are given by OS_ReadSysInfo,8

Platform class: A9home
Version number: RISC OS Ally Select [BETA] (32bit)
Part number : 20060316-002
Build date : Thu,16 Mar 2006.23:26:38

Sorry, I wasn't questioning the version of the OS - maybe I should have
snipped more. I was trying to get the point across that those who *have*
reported certain bugs, *have* received updates because Advantage6 knew that
they needed them and those customers could verify (which is
equally important), that the fix achieved the correct result.

There have been no generally released updates to the OS since then, the
only generally available update was from CJE and was associated with
printing I believe, I did not take it up.

I can't and won't try to dispute that.

[snip]

I have not reported any bugs recently. Disc corruptions caused me to
give up on the A9home, it has had only minimal use since they happened.

That there are unreleased updates around is the first hard evidence I
have heard of actual progress.

If you care to report certain bugs (as a sufferer), then you may find that
those fixes which have been distributed to myself and others may be
forthcoming.

I'm not going to get into details here, I signed up for the beta test
programme for the A9Home and as such agreed to report bugs directly to
Advantage6.

If people are not suffering from the bugs that I reported (and had fixes
for) to Advantage6, then they will not benefit particularly from having these
fixes. So I figured Advantage6 were not making them more widely available
in case the installation (or mis-installation) of fixes caused users without
prior problems to suffer new problems. Better that such fixes are rolled
into a fully tested ROM distribution for the general user community whom are
not troubled by such issues.

My recommendation on the A9home remains as it was, prospective
purchasers should await the finalised OS. That is to guard against the
possibility that the OS is never completed, but as there does seem to be
some movement it may not be that long a wait, but in any case do wait.

I understand your position above, although I don't find my experience of
the machine to be very unstable.

I do however avoid "over selling" it as a user. I am very happy with my
machine and am more than happy to spend time where I need to (which is not
very often over the last year or so), recreating and reporting any problems
which arise. I fully appreciate that *some* other people will not want to
get involved with such detail, so my advice is:

Get to a show, talk to CJE, ask about specific tasks to which you want to put
the machine to, have a play and see what you think. Get CJE to show you any
important applications (to you) in use and if it works for those, then it's
worth considering. If unsure, wait a while and see what happens.

From conversations I've had not too long ago with Advantage6, there is still
progress, but I too would have liked an updated Flash ROM image before now
with RISC OS 6 within. Advantage6 will not promise a date because they don't
want to have unhappy customers buying machines based on what will happen in
the future rather than what it does today.

Cheers
Steve
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