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Re: 1.99b, more
Hi Folks,
Sorry about answering e-mail and posts to the mailing list in an
order other than how they were received. I'll try to do better in
the future, but right now things are a bit scrambled.
I'll look into MS Word before I leave for a weeks vacation
(actually, I'll be writing press releases, READMEs and doing other
non-programming tasks on the beach in Chile).
I'll look at Glypha after I get back and also look into finding
Spaceward Ho. You should try running with the "-macbpp 1 -realbpp 1"
options -- that will force Executor to run in black and white mode,
but it probably won't help. If Executor is producing a nice Alert
box when it dies, sending that information to "bugs@ardi.com" will
help us out a bit.
We've seen other programs complain that 32-bit color quickdraw isn't
there. If I can pick up one via anonymous ftp I should be able to
find out exactly what's going wrong -- Mat cooked up some new tools
for us over the last few days and certain debugging tasks should be
much easier. I don't know if I'll be able to look at this before I
take off (I leave early Sunday morning, right now it's Thursday
night).
The HFS_XFer deleting folders problem is important -- anyone who is
experiencing this should try to come up with the minimal number of
steps necessary to get a death. For instance I don't know whether
you're seeing troubles when deleting files in the DOS partition, or
in an HFV file or on a Mac hard disk (which *should* behave exactly
like an HFV file does).
As to Solarian II working, yes, we spent a little time on that (we've
made some progress on Maelstrom lately, too -- you'll see the
progress in 1.99c). However, the wedge is non-trivial to overcome.
We know exactly what causes it, and we even have a patch that will
work on some (CL-6440 based for instance) VGA cards, but won't work
for the vast majority of them (Mach-32 will still fail). Still, we
should be able to fix the problem sometime in the next few weeks.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com