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ROMPatch

Acorn Computers/RISC OS Open Ltd

Issues fixed

Patch version Description OS versions affected
2.01 (24 Oct 1996)[1] Slow printing to some HP printers on parallel port. 3.70
2.01 (24 Oct 1996)[1] Occasional "No stack for trap handler" on some StrongARMs (SA110, revision less than 3). 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)[2] Errors from some applications using several in-memory transfers in succession. 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)[2] Crashes for very large in-memory transfers between applications (typically more than 7 Mb, or smaller transfers from applications with very large Wimp slots). 3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)[2] Failure of in-memory transfer if the transfer involves a dynamic area at a very high address (2Gb or more). 3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)[2] System centisecond timing reference can run a few percent fast or slow for periods of about an hour. The system real time clock correspondingly gains or loses time until the next hour, or until a reset. 3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)[2] Floppy discs cannot be formatted if the hard disc is locked. 3.60
2.04 (22 Oct 1997)[3] With ADFSBuffers non-zero and a disc of more than 2Gb, machine may hang. 3.60, 3.70
2.04 (22 Oct 1997)[3] C runtime sees uncaught trap if a SWI, called through _swi or _swix, aborts. 3.70, 3.71
2.05 (24 Jul 2012)[4] 3.50
2.06 (27 May 2013)[5] 4.02
2.07 (20 Nov 2017)[6] "Disc error 20" occurs with modern IDE devices. 3.50, 3.60, 3.70, 3.71, 4.02
2.08 (17 Mar 2024)[7] Occasional "No stack for trap handler" on some StrongARMs (SA110, revision less than 3) with Econet. 3.70, 3.71

RISCOS Ltd

Issues fixed

TODO

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