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not quite Appendix A, but a start
Hi Folks,
As you may know, I've been under the weather this week, as has Vaune,
our technical support person. I thought Bill Goldman was out due to illness
as well, but only because I forgot that he's on vacation until the beginning
of next year.
Anyway, while I've been "resting", I've also put our commercial library (and
a bunch of other stuff not listed here) through an in-house version of Executor
that will sometime be 1.99e. All the testing was done under Executor/Linux,
and there's no guarantee that every version of 1.99e will behave the same
way when it's released. Still, the following document gives you some idea
of what commercial apps we'll be testing under Executor as we plow towards
a release of 2.0.
There is no guarantee that any particular application on this list will work
when 2.0 comes out, although we'll be keeping this list current and cleaning
it up and republishing it as we progress.
[NOTE: enough bugs have been fixed since 1.99d was released that you
will *not* be able to duplicate many of our successes listed below]
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
While we're still finding and fixing major bugs related to our color
implementation, we're *not* doing much extensive testing of applications.
In general, right now we're looking for and fixing as many color related
(and an occasional filesystem related) bugs. After we have those under
control, we'll hire some student workers and do more exhaustive testing.
The purpose of this list currently is to give you an idea of what we're
working on and the general class that various applications fit into. The
possible classes are:
Green -- thoroughly tested; no bugs that would prevent the vast
majority of users from using this application.
Yellow -- less well tested or known bugs that prevent some
functionality from being usable. At a minimum, the
application must be able to read and display its
own document types.
Orange -- Will take mouse and keyboard events, but has enough
major bugs to make the application unusable.
Red -- Will not come up, but is still considered a target for
a better class by the time 2.0 ships.
Black -- Will not come up no, nor is it expected to when 2.0
ships (with possible System 7 spoofing exceptions).
Ether -- Application hasn't been tested yet but has already been
purchased or ordered
This file should only contain listings for "commercial" software.
Shareware, Demoware and Freeware will be in a separate file.
The comments after the "--" may contain jargon that only ARDI employees
understand.
Adobe Illustrator '88 1.9.5: Yellow -- OLD: largely untested
Atelier Hello (august 1992): Yellow -- not tested much
A-Train 1.0: Yellow -- color version has incorrect colors, B&W Seems to work
Canvas 1.02m: Yellow -- very old version, Seems to work, not much testing
Carmen Time: Yellow -- Seems to work, have tested a lot
Carmen USA: Yellow -- Seems to work, haven't tested much
Carmen World: Yellow -- Seems to work, haven't tested much
Critter Editor 1.0.2: Yellow -- sounds don't work; haven't tested much
Crystal Quest 2.20z: Yellow -- seems to work, some bad colors
Disk Doubler 3.0 app: Yellow -- seems to work, haven't tested much
EndNote Plus 1.2.1: Yellow -- may work, don't know how to test
Excel 4.0: Yellow -- Color problems, haven't tested much
Fontographer 3.5: Yellow -- seems to work, haven't tested much
HyperCard 2.1: Yellow -- needs "refresh", many stacks work, still buggy
HyperCard Player 2.2: Yellow -- see HyperCard 2.1
KidPix 2.0: Yellow -- mostly runs; still some problems
Leprechaun 3.0: Yellow -- needs "Pretend Sound"; works; haven't tested much
MacBreadboard 1.1: Yellow -- seems to work
MacMoney 3.52: Yellow -- "About box" causes death; haven't tested much
MacDraw II 1.1: Yellow -- seems to work, haven't tested much
MacLink 6.0: Yellow -- can't use serial port, but some translators appear to work
MacPaint 2.0: Yellow -- haven't tested much
Managing Your Money 6.0: Yellow -- seems to work, haven't tested much
Mandel Movie 1.88: Yellow -- hasn't been tested much
Maelstrom: Yellow -- needs refresh, somewhat playable on P590, too dark
Micro Planner 1.0.3: Yellow -- seems to work, haven't tested much
Norton Utilities 1.0: Yellow -- needs "direct disk access", disk doctor works
Prince of Persia 1.0: Yellow -- seems to work
Spectre 1.0: Yellow -- color probs, vector mode messed, single-user game somewhat
playable on 90P5
Swivel 3D 2.0: Yellow -- has lots of quirks
TeachText 1.2: Yellow -- seems to work
Think C 7.0: Yellow -- can't link, but can open projects and source
Typestyler 1.0.2: Yellow -- has trouble matching fonts, largely untested
WillMaker 5: Yellow -- Export to Text facility seems to work, haven't tested much
Word 5.1: Yellow -- Needs "noclock", seems to work, haven't tested much
FileMaker Pro: Orange -- Filesystem problems
PageMaker 4.2: Orange -- qStdText.c:531 failed assertion
Persuasion Player 1.0.4: Orange -- "plays" in wrong color, splodes
Claris Resolve 1.0: Red has trouble finding Scripts folder (discontinue)
CricketDraw III: Red heap smashage early in program (deb#varies)
CricketGraph 1.3.2: Red (color mods broke various picture stuff)
Excel 5.0: Red deb#201 m68k pc jumps to 0 after HWPriv, SetHandleSize
Finale 2.6.3: Red SoundDispatch problems (needs more spoofing?)
FractaSketch 1.39: Red -- trouble with convert_pixmap
Fullwrite Pro 1.1: Red -- their compression stuff confuses Executor
In Control 2.0: Red -- "Your computer lacks the required hardware or system software to
run IN CONTROL." (after many Gestalt calls)
MacClade 3.04: Red -- died after reading in data; cache related? Also died after
registering.
MacDraw Pro: Red -- UpdateGWorld not implemented
MacHDBackup Red -- died in convertpixmap
MacInTax '93: Red -- deb#277 jumps to -1
MacProject II: Red -- Claimed to be corrupted
MathType 3.0 Red -- Calls OffsetRect with rp == 0; corrupts itself
Max 3.0: Red -- same sound problems as Finale 2.6.3
Norton Utilities 2.0: Red -- deb#602 segv
Persuasion 2.1: Red -- "Requires a valid printer in the chooser"
PGA Tour Golf: Red -- dies in convert_pixmap
PowerPoint 3.0: Red -- claims computer doesn't have enough memory
PowerPoint 4.0: Red deb#219 m68k pc jumps to 0 after InitProcMenu
PowerPoker 1.0: Red deb#441 m68k pc jumps to 0 after LoadSeg
Prince of Persia 2.0: Red deb#90 "Fatal Error" after Gestalt, GetTrapAddress,
SysEnvirons, GetMainDevice, PBGetVol, PBGetVInfo
QuarkXPress 3.3: Red deb#150 problems after patched out LoadSeg called
Red Baron: Red -- CRestoreClutDevice unimplemented
SimAnt (b&w): Red -- Unhandled trap 4!
SimAnt (color): Red -- Double screen images + death
SimLife (color): Red -- Trouble perhaps from GetCIcon
Word 6.0: Red deb#379 HwPriv called with unexpected args
Adobe Type Manager: Black -- cdev
After Dark: Black -- cdev
America Online 2.01: Black -- serial port
Compuserve Info Manager: Black -- serial port (has color probs, too)
Compuserve Navigator 3.2: Black -- serial port
Disk First Aid 1.0: Black -- doesn't understand our filesystem
MacDataBus: Black -- System 7 (retest w/spoofing later)
MacInn (very old): Black -- not 32-bit clean
Meeting Maker: Black -- cdev
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0: Black -- hardware manipulation
Microsoft Works 4.0: Blac -- System 7 (retest w/spoofing later)
PrePrint 1.5.1: Black -- FPU
Ready, Set, Go! 4.0a: Black -- not 32-bit clean (1987)
Quicken 4.0: Ether -- Not yet installed? Who removed it?
FileMaker Pro 2.2: Ether -- Not yet installed
WriteNow 4.0: Ether -- Not yet installed
CodeWarrior Bronze CW4: Ether -- Not yet installed
Nisus Writer: Ether -- Not yet installed
ClarisWorks: Ether -- Not yet installed
Adobe Photoshop 3.0: Ether -- On order
Adobe Dimensions 2.0: Ether -- On order
Adobe Illustrator 5.5: Ether -- On order
PageMaker 5.0: Ether -- On order
Persuasion 3.0: Ether -- On order
Freehand 4.0: Ether -- On order