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Errors and New Pgms
Since 1/1/96 I've downloaded ~350 programs newly posted on the internet.
Knowing you are busy with other things I'd like to contribute the
following results as to errors and problems I encountered. The good news
is that I got almost a third of them to work. Please note I downloaded
_everything_ that was new unless I knew it would not work,eg, PPC or a
comm pgm. The following table is in order of frequency of the error:
1.Fatal Errors-no surprise here.
C_GetIconSuite
OSDispatch
-- SoundDispatch
ScriptUtil
HFSDispatch
ProcessManager
2.Need QuickTime
3.No FPU
4.Need Sys 7.0.0
5.GPF
6.Misc
Need Serial suport-otherwise the pgm seemed to
work
Gestalt error
Need Thread Manager-DarkForces Demo
Cannot read monitor gamma table
Nothing happens-the program makes bckgrnd noises
and
just sits there or goes back
to E/D.
And if I may the following pgms would make great additions the CDROM you
are working on as sample pgms to show off Executor. Note S means the
sound works well if not perfectly. All pgms were tested on my P5-60 16M
system with a clgd5426 1M video card with settings as follows:sys 6.0.7,
animation, 0 refresh,newline mapping, disk access, colors 256. Acceptions
to thses are noted below. Also assume the pgms are in color.
AllDay 4.5- Calendar w/ holidays and dates of your choosing. Pick
colors. Battuere 1.0- Chess variant.-S- with beautiful color. Black Box
1.2.3- Find the hidden balls.-S-.
Buffalo 1.0- Color tile game.Not mahjonng.
CalcWorks 1.4.2- Four in one calculator w/ conversions.
DOCMaker 4.2- Make stand alone documents.
Dark Wood 2.0- RPG in living color.
Fund Manager 3.0- Manager your portfolio.-B&W-
FlashWorks 1.0- Foreign language vocabulary test with Fr, Ger, Span, Heb,
&
words of ~1200 each.
Gestalt.Appl 2.6.6- System analyzer. (All the ones I tried say E/D has no
FPU) Glider 3.1.2- Fly the paper airplane through the room.-B&W- GnuChess
Mac40b5f- Good chess game-B&W-
GoldPusher 1.3- Leprechaun pushes his pot of gold to the rainbow to get
to next
level-S-Color-
GopherGolf- Fabulous color PuttPutt golf.Six courses with 3 game limit
for each-S-.
Graphic Converter 2.3.1- Outstanding viewer/converter with cursor acting
as
a magnifying glass.
HyperCard 2.1- Newer versions don't work. But I'd sugest the following
pgm
to get with/for HyperCard Player:
Book- write a book and draw pictures in it. The book is in
color
but the pictures are not.
Cindy's Recipes- Yep, a cookbook-B&W-
Guide to the Artist- Good example of HyperText Stacks out
there.
Tug of Word 2.5- Hangman variant-B&W-
ZEBI- unscramble the word-B&W-
INITGestalt Inspector 1.0
Lose Your Marbles 1.0- Fill the board of your choosing with differnet
colored
marbles to win.
MacDos 3.0- DOS for Mac. A command screen pgm with basic DOS commands.
MicroWorld 2.0- Moleculer viewer/manipulator with lots of examples.
MacSki 1.6- Excellent downhill ski program.Also design your own course-S-
PolyKin 1.0- Tetris variant.
ResEdit 2.1.3- You have to include this.
ScrapIt Pro 5.01FAT-30 day limit. Scrapbook for text.pictures,sounds.
Spheres- Quickly construct a path before balls start to roll.-S- Sirtet-
1 or 2 man tetris game. Use PS.
SolitaireTillDawn 2.1- 20+solitaire card games.
Tanagrams 3.18- Make the picture with given geometric shapes. Great
color. TaskMaker 2.2.1- Beautiful RPG with voices you understand!-S-
TechTool 1.0.9- Another sys analyzer.
Tronish 1.3.2- EtchOSketch game.
Unzip 5.12- For those who prefer zip. Viewer also.
War of Flowers- Beautiful oriental card game.
Wolfenstein- Of couse.-S-
Word Connection 1.0.8- Boggle variant but you design the board, word
length
sound,font.-S-
XConq 7.0.1- If you like Civilization this is it. Pick your time
period,location. ZipIt 1.3.5- Of course, with Unzip.
The other pgms that worked were limited in some way which you don't want
to show the limitations of E/D. Although there were some excellent ones
they were too s-l-o-w. If you can take time to look at a few Sharp
looking games sometime try out the following:
Giza 1.9- Sys 7.0.0.Beautiful color. Takes place in a
pyramid
with the well known wall murals. S-l-o-w.
Vitamin- Use PS. Another beautiful game with a flying bug
avoiding obstacles to get vitamins(go
Figure)S-l-o-w.
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@(jim malody)
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