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- >>>>> "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
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