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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Matt on November 11, 2002, 01:54:47 PM
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According to Zapek in his .plan (http://v3.vapor.com/index.php?finger=zapek) on the Voyager 3 (http://v3.vapor.com/) homepage a new release is being worked on.
Quote:
"I know it's been some time V beta 'timed out' (although it's still useable, there's some requester on startup). The reason there's no new version yet is that I started to do some significant changes but didn't finish. Shouldn't take too long though."
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Questions:
1)Will this new release even work, unlike previous releases?
2)Will the new release be MOS only?
Worst keyfile purchase ever! Don't waste your money.
:-x
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>Worst keyfile purchase ever! Don't waste your
>money.
Use release and not beta versions then...
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@Red:
TBQH, stability of V3,has been an issue with many for a while.
I do like V3, but when (not if) it crashes, it's a system killer and you soon just want to junk the bloody thing. If this release can fix stability issues, all the better.
As much as the Vapor team do like MOS, they'd be mad to not support 3.x, but it's their product and their choice. I would reckon that there will be releases for both versions of V.
-john
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Use release and not beta versions then...
You mean 2.95? How many years is that in the tooth? Besides even that version has it's issues and is beta a best even if it is called a release version. I registered to support development hoping for improvement.
I can't candy coat my disapointment. That's alot of scratch for pretty much non-functional product. Not to say the other browsers are that much better, but I found myself using Aweb almost exclusively.
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I do like V3, but when (not if) it crashes,
I couldn't get the bloody thing (V3) working at all on my previous system, no matter what I did. It would immediately take the whole system down.
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Interesting, I've really never had too much trouble with V3. I use it exclusively on my OS3.9 A4000 with good success. It worked fine on my OS3.1 A1200 too. I did once have a problem with V2 on an A3000 but V3 seems solid to me. I even used the Flash player which worked well.
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All versions of Voyager have worked pretty well on my Amigas. One thing I would like to mention is that Vapor better be planning on putting out some good updates. The 2.3 release of iBrowse is on the horizon, and by the looks of it, it will be excellent. I think it will raise the browser competition bar.
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I too have not had any problems using V3 on WinUAE! And I have brought the keyfile, looking forward to the next release!
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All versions of Voyager have worked pretty well on my Amigas.
I've never figured out why some people have some luck with V3, while others like myself could not get V3 anywhere near working. No hacks on my system, your basic run of the mill A3k/MK2-060/Prometheus-Voodoo3/OS3.9. After quite a few forum discussions, no one knew what the problem was, but some others experienced the same thing, while a few like yourself had no prob.
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Hi,
I've really never had too much trouble with V3
Same here, Sometimes after an hour or two Voyager does crash but most of the time it is great..
I really look forward to the next release,
Keep up the good work!
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I use Voyager for most of my online activities, Ibrowse seems more
stable, but Voyager's functions seem to work better. I rarely use
Aweb, but it does have its uses (its the only one I can use to sell
stuff on eBay, the others all hang on the final Submit Auction button)
Bring on the update.
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>You mean 2.95?
3.2.12
3.3.x are beta versions with new OO layouting
engine.
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Voyager has been really kind to me. Last week it crashed, just V,
after being runing for 2 weeks! Been back to the same site a few
tmes since with no crash too. The download crashes if I choose to
overwrite a file though.
I hope the next release improves so others can run this great program.
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The last few Betas have always been crash heavy for me, older/release ones seem not to bad.
It has sure been along wait for a major update..lets hope the new release/updates come more frequent.
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This is good news and sounds promising.
I never run Voyager from hard drive anymore
and probably never will.
It used to take down the system and validate my
hard drive.Several times this happened!
Now I run it from Ram Disk.I simply copy the drawer
and start it from there*.It doesn't stop it from
crashing (V 3.3.122 is better than before)
but my system reboots (usualy) and my drives are
intact.
*Note:You still have to start it from your hard drive
if you need to register to a site (ie. Amiga.Org etc.)
and to save settings.Remember to save files to a drive
or you'll lose them in a crash.
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Solved by putting a cache: assign/partiton on your system that uses a diff filesystem like SFS or PFS3, and getting V3 (and or AWeb/IB to use it). Since doing that I have not needed to format or validate a partition in years.