Elite / Frontier FE2 Mining Bug Atari ST Version

Does anyone have a fix or work around for this please? Even with all mining machines in the hold the game will still crash if I try to sell a machine or the ship, and even when trying to use a capsule.
It looks like I'm stuck with the same ship if I want to continue this game.
 
The Mb4 mining machine bug was/is well known. Though I never dabbled in mining when I played originally.

Have you tied the PC version from here that's supposedly virtually bug free?
http://www.sharoma.com/frontierverse/game.htm

I use it on dos-box but I have not tried mining yet. Unfortunately I do not think your save games will be compatible which will mean you start from scratch.
 
The PC version was patched, & I believe I've played a patched Amiga version but I don't know if the Atari version got a patch.

Luckily I seem to have found a workable solution. By deploying all machines I'm able to trade ships again & resume normal play, except for being stuck with any machines I buy because the game will crash again when I try to sell them. But as I can still make progress that's no big deal.
 
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