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Using NIH-Image under E/L(X)1.99q I still experience a few bugs. 1) Image's built-in text editor breaks frequently, forgetting the insertion point and improperly redrawing text (like when you backspace past the beginning of a line.) 2) It's mostly cosmetic, but the selection tools are not displaying until the mouse is released. (Maybe only under X?) 3) The line selection tool leaves permanent garbage when dragged around outside of its original bounds (sometimes). OTOH I managed to implement a sort of unix "semaphore" and now I can use Image as a display device and trigger Image macros from other X processes. From owner-paper Tue Feb 6 08:54:24 1996 Return-Path: <owner-paper> Received: by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tjpih-0007qPa; Tue, 6 Feb 96 08:54 MST Sender: owner-paper Received: from innovsoftd.innovsoftd.com by ftp.ardi.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tjpi5-0007qOC; Tue, 6 Feb 96 08:53 MST Received: from innovsoftd.com (pm2e-511-222 [206.11.32.222]) by innovsoftd.innovsoftd.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA32419 for <executor@ardi.com>; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:50:57 -0600 Message-Id: <199602061550.JAA32419@innovsoftd.innovsoftd.com> From: jmalody@isd.net Reply-to: jmalody@isd.net Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 22:17:06 To: executor@ardi.com Subject: Errors and New Pgms X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition v0.99j Sender: owner-paper@ardi.com Precedence: bulk Since 1/1/96 I've downloaded ~350 programs newly posted on the internet. Knowing you are busy with other things I'd like to contribute the following results as to errors and problems I encountered. The good news is that I got almost a third of them to work. Please note I downloaded _everything_ that was new unless I knew it would not work,eg, PPC or a comm pgm. The following table is in order of frequency of the error: 1.Fatal Errors-no surprise here. C_GetIconSuite OSDispatch -- SoundDispatch ScriptUtil HFSDispatch ProcessManager 2.Need QuickTime 3.No FPU 4.Need Sys 7.0.0 5.GPF 6.Misc Need Serial suport-otherwise the pgm seemed to work Gestalt error Need Thread Manager-DarkForces Demo Cannot read monitor gamma table Nothing happens-the program makes bckgrnd noises and just sits there or goes back to E/D. And if I may the following pgms would make great additions the CDROM you are working on as sample pgms to show off Executor. Note S means the sound works well if not perfectly. All pgms were tested on my P5-60 16M system with a clgd5426 1M video card with settings as follows:sys 6.0.7, animation, 0 refresh,newline mapping, disk access, colors 256. Acceptions to thses are noted below. Also assume the pgms are in color. AllDay 4.5- Calendar w/ holidays and dates of your choosing. Pick colors. Battuere 1.0- Chess variant.-S- with beautiful color. Black Box 1.2.3- Find the hidden balls.-S-. Buffalo 1.0- Color tile game.Not mahjonng. CalcWorks 1.4.2- Four in one calculator w/ conversions. DOCMaker 4.2- Make stand alone documents. Dark Wood 2.0- RPG in living color. Fund Manager 3.0- Manager your portfolio.-B&W- FlashWorks 1.0- Foreign language vocabulary test with Fr, Ger, Span, Heb, & words of ~1200 each. Gestalt.Appl 2.6.6- System analyzer. (All the ones I tried say E/D has no FPU) Glider 3.1.2- Fly the paper airplane through the room.-B&W- GnuChess Mac40b5f- Good chess game-B&W- GoldPusher 1.3- Leprechaun pushes his pot of gold to the rainbow to get to next level-S-Color- GopherGolf- Fabulous color PuttPutt golf.Six courses with 3 game limit for each-S-. Graphic Converter 2.3.1- Outstanding viewer/converter with cursor acting as a magnifying glass. HyperCard 2.1- Newer versions don't work. But I'd sugest the following pgm to get with/for HyperCard Player: Book- write a book and draw pictures in it. The book is in color but the pictures are not. Cindy's Recipes- Yep, a cookbook-B&W- Guide to the Artist- Good example of HyperText Stacks out there. Tug of Word 2.5- Hangman variant-B&W- ZEBI- unscramble the word-B&W- INITGestalt Inspector 1.0 Lose Your Marbles 1.0- Fill the board of your choosing with differnet colored marbles to win. MacDos 3.0- DOS for Mac. A command screen pgm with basic DOS commands. MicroWorld 2.0- Moleculer viewer/manipulator with lots of examples. MacSki 1.6- Excellent downhill ski program.Also design your own course-S- PolyKin 1.0- Tetris variant. ResEdit 2.1.3- You have to include this. ScrapIt Pro 5.01FAT-30 day limit. Scrapbook for text.pictures,sounds. Spheres- Quickly construct a path before balls start to roll.-S- Sirtet- 1 or 2 man tetris game. Use PS. SolitaireTillDawn 2.1- 20+solitaire card games. Tanagrams 3.18- Make the picture with given geometric shapes. Great color. TaskMaker 2.2.1- Beautiful RPG with voices you understand!-S- TechTool 1.0.9- Another sys analyzer. Tronish 1.3.2- EtchOSketch game. Unzip 5.12- For those who prefer zip. Viewer also. War of Flowers- Beautiful oriental card game. Wolfenstein- Of couse.-S- Word Connection 1.0.8- Boggle variant but you design the board, word length sound,font.-S- XConq 7.0.1- If you like Civilization this is it. Pick your time period,location. ZipIt 1.3.5- Of course, with Unzip. The other pgms that worked were limited in some way which you don't want to show the limitations of E/D. Although there were some excellent ones they were too s-l-o-w. If you can take time to look at a few Sharp looking games sometime try out the following: Giza 1.9- Sys 7.0.0.Beautiful color. Takes place in a pyramid with the well known wall murals. S-l-o-w. Vitamin- Use PS. Another beautiful game with a flying bug avoiding obstacles to get vitamins(go Figure)S-l-o-w. ----------------------------------------------------------- @(jim malody) -----------------------------------------------------------