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Re: 1.99b, more



Hi Folks,

Sorry about answering e-mail and posts to the mailing list in an  
order other than how they were received.  I'll try to do better in  
the future, but right now things are a bit scrambled.

I'll look into MS Word before I leave for a weeks vacation
(actually, I'll be writing press releases, READMEs and doing other  
non-programming tasks on the beach in Chile).

I'll look at Glypha after I get back and also look into finding  
Spaceward Ho.  You should try running with the "-macbpp 1 -realbpp 1"  
options -- that will force Executor to run in black and white mode,  
but it probably won't help.  If Executor is producing a nice Alert  
box when it dies, sending that information to "bugs@ardi.com" will  
help us out a bit.

We've seen other programs complain that 32-bit color quickdraw isn't  
there.  If I can pick up one via anonymous ftp I should be able to  
find out exactly what's going wrong -- Mat cooked up some new tools  
for us over the last few days and certain debugging tasks should be  
much easier.  I don't know if I'll be able to look at this before I  
take off (I leave early Sunday morning, right now it's Thursday  
night).

The HFS_XFer deleting folders problem is important -- anyone who is  
experiencing this should try to come up with the minimal number of  
steps necessary to get a death.  For instance I don't know whether  
you're seeing troubles when deleting files in the DOS partition, or  
in an HFV file or on a Mac hard disk (which *should* behave exactly  
like an HFV file does).

As to Solarian II working, yes, we spent a little time on that (we've  
made some progress on Maelstrom lately, too -- you'll see the  
progress in 1.99c).  However, the wedge is non-trivial to overcome.   
We know exactly what causes it, and we even have a patch that will  
work on some (CL-6440 based for instance) VGA cards, but won't work  
for the vast majority of them (Mach-32 will still fail).  Still, we  
should be able to fix the problem sometime in the next few weeks.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com