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- >>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony J Stuckey <stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
-
- >> One other quick bug I seem to have found in executor itself.
- >> In Civilization, if you click on a space with units that are in
- >> Sentry mode (which should display a little dialog box allowing
- >> you to wake them up), executor/Civ seg faults. This is hyper
- >> annoying as it makes the use of sea vessels for transporting
- >> units impossible.
-
- Anthony> Civilization apparently tickles a lot of differences
- Anthony> between Executor and a Mac. It frequently dies when the
- Anthony> special dialogs come up about "your people are happy and
- Anthony> decided to improve your castle", "foreign diplomats wish
- Anthony> to speak to you", etc. I have had no problems waking
- Anthony> Sentry units up, but then, I haven't gotten the most
- Anthony> recent releases, either.
-
- Before 1.99o8 was made I found a potentially penetrating bug in the
- way our dialogs are handled. There were actually two bugs. One where
- we do something incorrect that can result in a program dieing, but
- only if the calling program did something unexpected and another one
- where we would do something that would cause some programs to do
- something unexpected. The upshot of this is that some programs would
- have been more likely to have trouble with dialogs than others, but
- now all the troubles associated with these two bugs are fixed.
-
- Anthony> If you are playing Civ under Executor, absolutely save
- Anthony> every couple of turns. Seg faults are even more common
- Anthony> than they are on regular macs, and that's saying a lot.
- Anthony> (I have rarely managed to finish a game of Civ ever
- Anthony> without it dying. Of course, I've only played ~100
- Anthony> games, so I might just be lucky.)
-
- Pick up 1.99o8 and let me know if there is any difference. For other
- people playing Civilization, apparently the sentry bug was fixed
- elsewhere, at least according to Toby:
-
- >>>>> "Toby" == Tobermory_Everett@hmc.edu writes:
-
- Toby> I have a solution. I was using an old version. The file
- Toby> newciv.sit available from ftp.microprose.com (it needs to be
- Toby> de-binhexed first) solved everything.
-
- For those of you who may think that we spend too much time working on
- games, in general most of our time is spent on the big programs (Word,
- Excel, Quark, PageMaker) and Mac-only programs (NIH Image, MacClade,
- PAUP, Collate), *but* if there is a game that we have access to that
- can be trivially made to crash then we try to take a brief look at the
- crash since the crash may be the result of a penetrating bug. Those
- dialog buges I've mentioned above have probably been hurting our Word
- users occasionally for a long time, but it was only by looking at a
- game that I found out *exactly* what was going wrong.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-