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- I just spent a while looking into why LemmingsDemo is sometimes flaky
- under Executor/DOS. The problem appears to occur when you don't give
- it enough memory; I was able to reproduce this under Linux with:
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- executor -applzone 1400
-
- So I went over to a Mac and edited the LemmingsDemo SIZE resource so
- it only gets 1.4M of RAM (which Lemmins says should be enough). Lo
- and behold, it crashes on a real Mac too! So I guess our emulation is
- accurate. :-)
-
- If Lemmings is doing weird things to you, you should be able to work
- around this problem by saying:
-
- executor -applzone 2048
-
- and thereby guaranteeing that Lemmings has 2M of free memory to work with.
-
- For our next release we'll probably make the minimum default applzone
- size be 2M. We've also taken out the 8M upper bound; you can now have
- applzone and syszone up to 16M! This should make some of you diehard
- power users happy. Going beyond the 16M limit is difficult because of
- limitations in the Macintosh memory manager design.
-
- -Mat
-
-