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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Vitamin- Use PS. Another beautiful game with a flying bug
- avoiding obstacles to get vitamins(go
- Figure)S-l-o-w.
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