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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA25139 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:09:04 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA07173; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 14:08:58 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sjXdk-000YbnC; Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:03 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sjXdk-00005nC; Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:03 MDT Message-Id: <m0sjXdk-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:03 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge is better. Bleeding Edge is worse. In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9508181319.A27636-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> References: <Pine.3.89.9508181319.A27636-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes: Jeff> 1) SimCity 2000 loads for the first time ever! (Thanks to Jeff> the new -system 7 command!) I get the title screen, and can Jeff> go past to what appears to be the "playing" mode... (I'll Jeff> explain..) There are some odd quirks that may be good for Jeff> ARDI to debug. First off, the window that says "This copy Jeff> is Registered to..." doesn't pop-up in the center of the Jeff> screen as does a true-mac. Secondly, the "mini-menus" Jeff> appear to be gibberish--just a bunch of pixel dust... Are Jeff> these just system seven specific things that don't work yet? We don't have a copy of SimCity 2000 over here to test, but I'd guess that the pixel dust problem is more likely to be a multi-byte per-pixel graphics problem, although, of the ARDI engineers, I'm the least qualified to say. The registration popping up thing may simply be an artifact of our "normal" graphics caching. If you turn animation on you might see that window after all. Jeff> 2) Microsoft Word5.1a doesn't work anymore... :-( I'm at Jeff> work, so I can't tell you the exact error now, but If Jeff> someone wants to know, I'll tell you. (I'm sure ARDI either Jeff> already knows this, or its a matter of some config files Jeff> that were changed and not included in the Bleeding Edge...) Oops. It's "emustubs.c:nnn fatal error in `doselectorblock' ..." Very reproducible over here. I know what's causing it. I can think of a couple ways to fix it. Hopefully I can get to it over the weekend. I'm sort of looking for a reason to release 1.99o5 anyway, since Apeiron now works over here (you can move and shoot), although under X it requires refresh which slows things down a bit. Jeff> Its looking great! Looking forward to full Sys7 support Jeff> (not to mention drop in OS replacement support in the Jeff> future. Well, 2.0 won't have "full" Sys7 support, but the support will be much nicer than what we currently have out here. 1.99o3 was meant primarily to let people get a peek at what we're doing, and to let early adopters start playing with NIH Image 1.58. 1.99o4 just corrected some of the egregious bugs in 1.99o3. However, there are still many parts of the System 7 filesystem subsystem that haven't been implemented at all (they're on my platter). Drop in OS replacement is still a goal of ours, but it will take us at least a year *after* we release 2.0. Jeff> By the way, I have seen a "look and feel" enhancer for the Jeff> macintosh on my friends machine a while back. It basically Jeff> changed the graphics for the windows, scrollbars, file Jeff> icons, etc... Does anyone know if this would work on Jeff> executor? Or have any idea of how I could get it to work? Jeff> (Is this is what is called an INIT? could I simply Jeff> drag+drop it onto the hot band?) Those are "INIT"s and they won't go under Executor, not even under 2.0 -- sorry. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com