diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 795dc97..64132f4 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ things to do in :osc-ex[tensions|tras]
 
 
 changes
+  2005-12-05
+     - version 0.3
+     - fixed openmcl float bug (decode-uint32)
   2005-11-29 
      - version 0.2
      - openmcl float en/decoding
diff --git a/osc.asd b/osc.asd
index dbb5398..c850ef6 100644
--- a/osc.asd
+++ b/osc.asd
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
     :author "nik gaffney <nik@fo.am>"
     :licence "LLGPL"
     :description "The Open Sound Control protocol, aka OSC"
-    :version "0.2"
+    :version "0.3"
     :components ((:file "osc")))
diff --git a/osc.lisp b/osc.lisp
index 58cb841..e1ce391 100644
--- a/osc.lisp
+++ b/osc.lisp
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
   "ieee754 float from a vector of 4 bytes in network byte order"
   #+sbcl (sb-kernel:make-single-float (decode-int32 s))
   #+cmucl (kernel:make-single-float (decode-int32 s))
-  #+openmcl (CCL::HOST-SINGLE-FLOAT-FROM-UNSIGNED-BYTE-32 (decode-int32 s))
+  #+openmcl (CCL::HOST-SINGLE-FLOAT-FROM-UNSIGNED-BYTE-32 (decode-uint32 s))
   #-(or sbcl cmucl openmcl) (error "cant decode floats using this implementation"))
 
 (defun decode-int32 (s)
@@ -271,6 +271,14 @@
         (- 0 (- #x100000000 i))
 	i)))
 
+(defun decode-uint32 (s)
+  "4 byte -> 32 bit unsigned int"
+  (let ((i (+ (ash (elt s 0) 24)
+	      (ash (elt s 1) 16)
+	      (ash (elt s 2) 8)
+	      (elt s 3))))
+    i))
+
 (defun encode-int32 (i)
   "convert an integer into a sequence of 4 bytes in network byte order."
   (declare (type integer i))