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E/D v1.99p6 Problems(?)



Hello!

I've finally upgraded to Bleeding Edge Land here from a really old
version (1.99n, I think?), and I've noticed a couple of things about
the new version I grabbed last night (v1.99p6):

(1) I have a Mac CD-ROM called "Ultra Mac-Games" (very important! <g>),
    and Executor seems to be able to read it just fine from PC-DOS 6.3
    (it shows up as a Mac drive), but if I run it from an OS/2 VDM it
    doesn't seem to see it.  To be honest, I don't know if it worked
    before either, since I'd always looked at it from DOS before.

    Why can't it see it as a MAC CD-ROM under Warp?  FWIW, the drive
    letter under Warp is Q: (C: through P: are various FAT and HPFS
    partitions).

(2) I notice that the video glitch that happened previously in Glypha III
    is now gone.  Yay!  Except the program now seems to abort (under
    Warp and DOS both) with the following screen:

eax=ffffffa0 ebx=009bab36 ecx=004b58a6 edx=ffffffff esi=00000030 edi=00000000
ebp=001ec4bc esp=001ec440 cs=00d7 ds=00df es=00df fs=0117 gs=00ff ss=00df
Call frame traceback EIPs:
  0x0005e1ee
  0x0005e270
  0x0005e3f1
  0x0004f3d4
  0x0004f909
  0x000d6c86
  0x000d1fee
  0x0010a6b4
  0x000e8b5c

  This happens when the first "bad guy" is supposed to show up, since
  I can flap around on the empty screen just fine.  But then it dies.
  Hope this is useful!

  (3) The "Info" display for a virtual disk is really confusing.  What
      does this mean?...:

      Capacity: 9MB, 1019KB, 0 Bytes
      Free:     1 MB, 380KB, 0 bytes

      This means I have 1MB+380KBytes free, and 9MB+1019KB used?

      If so, why not just list the entire quantity as strictly MB, KB
      or bytes? The hybrid combination used above is really weird, and
      really nonstandard, and it's not very intuitive...  :-)

-- 
  -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@skypoint.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
         Written offline using PC Yarn + Yes + TDE in a Warp VDM
           MILLIHELEN: Amount of beauty required to launch one ship.