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- Subject: ANNOUNCE: 1.99q12 has been released
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- From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 23:37 MST
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-
- Executor 1.99q12 is now available for all platforms. q10, and q11
- were only available for DOS, so this document describes changes
- between 1.99q9 and 1.99q12. Many of the changes mentioned below only
- affect how Executor works internally and as such you shouldn't expect
- to understand all the incredibly brief descriptions.
-
- In general there are relatively bug fixes that affect applications
- other than Quicken and NIH Image.
-
- Like most other bleeding edge releases, 1.99q12 only contains a small
- fraction of an Executor distribution. Under DOS and Linux you need to
- install 1.99q12 on top of 1.99q. Under NEXTSTEP you need to install
- 1.99q12 on top of 1.99q2 (an exception to the normal rule).
-
- 1.99q12 is available from vorlon, ARDI's primary mirror:
-
- ftp://vorlon.mit.edu/pub/ardi/BleedingEdge contains a DOS, a Linux and
- a NEXTSTEP subdirectory, each of which contains the q12 .zip or
- .tar.gz file for that operating system. Our WWW site
- (http://www.ardi.com/) will soon be adjusted to allow you to download
- 1.99q12 from it.
-
- ============================================================================
-
- Changes that affect all versions of Executor:
-
- Implemented GetPixMapInfo for NIH Image
-
- Fixed bug that was causing lemmings screens to flash after fades
-
- Fixed bug that prevented reports from working in Quicken 6
-
- Fixed bug that caused AppendDitl (and routines that called it) to
- sometimes crash (that may be the bug that prevented the Quicken 6
- installer from working)
-
- Added a new Gestalt selector 'MUL8'
-
- Added some extra debugging code to memory manager
-
- Fixed possible race condition in synchronous interrupt code
-
- DefltStack and MinStack were improperly set up
-
- PrimeTime understands negative args as being microseconds
-
- Eliminated extraneous newline in warning string
-
- Axed many spurious low global warnings
-
- Got rid of spurious xdata warnings
-
- Got rid of extraneous beeps in NMInstall for OpenProlog
-
- DOS specific changes (from 1.99q9):
-
- Better sound
-
- Faster on many systems
-
- Fixed problem that was causing "c:" and "C:" being separate volumes
-
- Bimodal 1024 Hz interrupt code
-
- Time manager uses new DOS time elapsed API
-
- No longer reset BIOS countdown value during interrupt handler
-
- X only:
-
- No longer allowed to resize window
-
- ============================================================================
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-