How should I upload an unofficial bug fix?

[cormacj]

Hey all.

So I have a bug fix for RODOS. This is a bug I found around 1986ish. I wrote to Romantic Robot to let them know about this, but apparently it was never fixed.

Well, recently I unexpectedly found myself with a bunch of free time, so I hunted down the bug and fixed it.

Here is the RODOS bug. If you do this:

|ZAP,12,"Print "+chr$(34)+"ROM 12 off"+chr$(34)+chr$(13)

It will turn off rom 12, but print garbage on restart rather than using the specified text - it should have rebooted and ran: Print "ROM 12 off"

It turned out to be a problem where the buffer that the command was stored was being overwritten with some data for other commands.

Finally here is my question:

Do I:

1) Bump the version and release it as (unofficial bug fix)

or

2) Just write a patch file, and stick it on the wiki?

Thanks

[roudoudou]

i think some website like cpc-power or cpcrulez will be happy to publish your version as "officially" patched by yourself

[eto]

Do I:

1) Bump the version and release it as (unofficial bug fix)

or

2) Just write a patch file, and stick it on the wiki?

Thanks

My personal preference would be: Put both incl. a README into a ZIP and upload it to the Wiki. Create a link on the respective Wiki page and mention the purpose of the patch.

And, like Roudoudou mentioned, upload it to the other two sites cpc-power and cpcrulez. 

[GUNHED]

You can put the fixed ROM in the CPCWiki (see ROMs or so) and post it here too. So it's usable immediately.