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ANNOUNCE: 1.99q12 has been released
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.
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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
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--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com