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Re: Bleeding Edge is better. Bleeding Edge is worse.



>>>>> "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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