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1.99m status
Hi Folks,
Right now I have three things to do before I'm ready to roll 1.99m
(Cotton, Mat and Bill have all completed their tasks):
PR #934 (browser) creating a directory in DOS filesystem has problems
PR #901 Tex-Edit created execout.ps doesn't print
PR #972 Checking for disk with a full hotband causes crash
Bill couldn't reproduce this on the mac. He used 5 offline volumes.
The first one is tricky, because it only happens under Executor/DOS,
but I prefer to debug under Executor/Linux. The last one may be
tricky too, since it is probably a bug in Bill's code, but he can't
reproduce it on a Mac, so it's in my hands now. Offhand, I'd guess
these three bugs will take me about a day to fix, and putting together
Linux and DOS versions of 1.99m will take me another day.
We'll want to test these versions fairly well, especially since 1.99l
had so many bugs, so the earliest you can expect them to be released
would probably be Sunday.
There's a chance that our new 16-bpp and 32-bpp code will also be
included in 1.99m, and we're hoping for a newer version of cwsdpmi
that fixes a problem that occasionally occurs when you move the mouse
while paging, but neither of those additions are guaranteed to be in
1.99m. Mat's fast blitter is definitely *not* in 1.99m, since Mat
spent much time fixing many of 1.99l's bugs instead of working on the
new blitter.
In other news, MACup, the largest Macintosh magazine in Germany, just
ran a story on us, and we're consequently getting a lot of German
interest.
If 1.99m really is as stable as it appears to be, we'll start ramping
up the ARDI propaganda machine by sending disks to various editors
worldwide and making the demo available from major on-line service
providers.
As always, thanks for your interest.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com