home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- Eeeek A Bug!
- by David Dunham
-
-  
- Matt Slot, our intrepid programmer, has been working hard on a bug in the CD module
- of CSP. This bug would cause some more obscure CD drivers to not recognize more
- than 4 tracks, or for some to not recognize more than 10 tracks. Something to do with
- track counts being BCD vs hexadecimal, that's binary coded decimal vs base 16 for you
- non geeks out there. He has sent out a beta version of the module and it seems to be taking
- /are of the problem. Color Switch Pro v1.2.1 should be ready for release in a matter of days.
-
- Another issue I have come across in Color Switch Pro is using a combination of the control key with another
- key for a hot key in the shortcuts module. This one appears in very limited circumstances, I know this
- because I have only heard from one person suffering from it. I wouldn't even bring it up but for the fact that
- it crashed my computer! When I was originally contacted about this one I gave it a try on my machine.
- Control-one was ignored by CSP, control-two "worked" only partly and control three sent my machine
- screaming into MacsBug. As I said this one only occurs in limited circumstances and Matt couldn't
- reproduce it on his machine. Anyone who has experienced a similar problem let me know at
- help@ambrosiasw.com.
-
- Some of you Escape Velocity players may know about this one already. Sometimes when a pilot buys a
- cruiser on Luna, they find that their cruiser won't turn at all. The turn rate on a cruiser is supposed to be
- pretty slow but hey mingya not that slow. After they buy this cruiser they discover that none of the cruisers
- in EV will turn anymore. This one is particularly annoying as the player usually spends most of his credits
- on the ship. When contacted, Matt Burch responded that he had a good idea of what the problem is. He
- hopes to have a solution by the time Escape Velocity Override is released. What's that you say, what is EV
- Override - well check out the What's New Page in this issue to find out.
-
- Last but not least, several people had problems with Harry the Handsome Executive even after the release of
- the 1.0.1 update. When they tried to open Harry they got a message saying, "Application cannot be opened
- because SoundLib cannot be found" After much consternation on my part, I discovered the obvious
- solution, thanks in part to a user smarter than me. Users just had to upgrade to the latest version of
- Quicktime. So if you have experienced this problem go to:
-
- http://quicktime.apple.com/sw/sw3.html
-
- to download the latest version.
-
- Well that's it for this episode of Eek-a-bug! Hopefully next month I won't have anything to write about at
- all;-)
-
-    
-
-
-