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Berkeley Systems, Inc.
After Dark 3.0b
Needs: After Dark 3.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Disables sleep over 2400+ baud modem operations with SystemIQ turned on.
- Randomizer module now more random.
- EcoLogic's mode-advance key command changed to Option-Shift to avoid conflict with screen capture.
Fixes
- Menu Bar and Desktop merely "blink" when AD attempts to sleep (conflict with System 7.5's Apple Menu Options cdev or Norton Utilities' FileSaver - Symantec is fixing as well).
- Crash on AD waking if AD slept over a dialog box from Apple's or Aladdin's Installer.
- When AD sleeps first time, SAM (on Advanced setting) punches through screen saver with alert "SAM detected an attempt to bypass the resource manager..." and possibly hangs.
- Crashing when Easy Alarms is foreground app or had put up a dialog box and AD goes to sleep.
- Empower INIT crashing when loaded after AD.
- AD not loading at startup with Disk Doubler 3.7.7 installed and 32-bit addressing off.
- InTouch Snap control panel preventing AD sleep.
- Prodigy 3.0 sometimes crashing during sleep.
- AD sometimes sleeping during file transfer in America Online even with SystemIQ turned on.
- System hang if AD control panel is open and MS Mail notification appears and user clicks outside of either dialog.
- System hang when fax comes in and Apple Express Modem is set to auto-answer.
- Crashing or failing to sleep when White Knight is the active app.
- AD sometimes crashing while running Great Plains.
- Crashing when Word Perfect 3.0 is printing or mail merging (with the spinning cursor).
- Crashing in Word Perfect 3.0 if the HP DeskWriter alerts the user and AD is asleep.
- Crashing on sleep when MYOB is active.
- When KidDesk 1.1 or At Ease 1.01 is the startup app: AD not sleeping in Finder & crashing if user presses the sleep hot key in Finder (does not occur in At Ease 2.0).
- Crashing when AD sleeps over open TurboCAD document.
- Crashing when AD sleeps over Best Books.
- Crashing when AD sleeps over Code Warrior "Open" dialog.
- Premature sleeping in Excel 4.0 (AD does not "see" the keystrokes).
- Crash on AD waking when CAT IV 1.0 is running.
- Crashing with "Marbles" module running as a MultiModule in Password mode.
Additions
- Support for the quit application "qapp" Apple Event.
Incompatibilities
- See Update Database for still unresolved problems with AD 3.0b (Old MultiModule and Randomizer modules, Pearls module, WallZapper, Spock and Pinocchio modules, Artist module, and AD Installer problem). Unresolved problems with alerts and notifications, QuickMail 3.0, Norton Fastback, AutoCAD, Photoshop 2.5.1, PegasusMail 2.0, and Eudora.
Notes
- See Update Database for info on related fixes with third party programs: Connectix PowerBook Utilities (CPU), Connectix Desktop Utilities (CDU), Adobe Type Reunion, Soft Windows, Think Pascal, Baseline Thunder 7, DiskLock, Net Distributor, Coda Finale, Intermission, and SofTrack Notify.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Binary Software
Square One 2.0.1
Needs: Square One version 2.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Improvements in the memory scheme.
Fixes
- Occasional failure of the Active Applications Palette to switch applications.
- The Quit item disappearing from the File menu.
- Problem with the zoom box on the PowerBook 100.
- Crashing with Now UpToDate and Now Contact.
- Some redraw errors.
- Multiple palettes sometimes not opening at startup when they were open at shutdown.
- Crashing under System 6 (though proper functioning still requires System 7).
- Documents not opening with FileMaker Pro and Freehand.
Additions
- Ability to delete a palette name from the File menu by holding down the option key while selecting the name.
Incompatibilities
- A/UX.
- Jasiks Debugger (conflicts with the Square One Extension on Power Macs).
- The Turbo Mouse software previous to 4.0.2 causes the "Hot Corners" to not function.
- Older versions of Norton Disk Light conflict with Mac Drag and Drop installed by Square One.
- Conflict Catcher previous to 2.1.2 conflicts with Mac Drag and Drop.
Notes
- See Update Database for usage notes.
Caere Corp.
Agfa Support for Omnipage 5.0
Needs: Omnipage/Pro 5.0, Agfa scanner
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Extension adds support for the many popular Agfa Scanners.
CambridgeSoft Corp.
CambridgeSoft Chem3D/Pro 3.1.3
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Conflicts with Power Mac Modern Memory Manager and QuickDraw GX.
Notes
- Contact Cambridge to request this free update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Carnation Software
MacToPic 5.64
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problems with VT101 emulation.
Additions
- Lassoed screen text can now be captured into the clipboard as as editable text or as a picture.
- Support for System 7.5 and Apple Guide.
Notes
- Contact Carnation to order the update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Carnation Software
MacToPic Plus 7.05
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problems with VT101 emulation.
- Crashing on Mac IIcx.
Additions
- Lassoed screen text can now be captured into the clipboard as as editable text or as a picture.
- Support for System 7.5 and Apple Guide.
- Support for Multiple Sessions with TCP/IP and CommToolBox.
Notes
- Contact Carnation to order the update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Carnation Software
SBMac 3.0
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problems with VT101 emulation.
Additions
- Lassoed screen text can now be captured into the clipboard as as editable text or as a picture.
- Support for System 7.5 and Apple Guide.
- Support for Multiple Sessions with TCP/IP and CommToolBox.
Notes
- Contact Carnation to order the update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Claris Corp.
ClarisImpact 1.0v4
Needs: ClarisImpact 1.0vx
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Incorrect opening of Freehand EPSF files.
- Crashing when saving documents containing PICTs to MacDraw Pro or MD II formats.
- Incorrect export of slide and master slide content to EPSF format.
- Incorrect recognition of the Print Range settings when printing both Handouts and Slides.
Additions
- Support for ClarisDraw documents and Libraries.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Dayna Communications, Inc.
DL/2 & DL/2000 LAN Drivers 3.18
Needs: DL/2 or DL/2000 LocalTalk Card, NetWare Server
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problems with Netware 3.12 which cause very slow file transfers from the server and also slow printing from a print queue on the server to a printer attached to the DL/2.
Incompatibilities
- See Update Database for Known Problems list.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
DayStar Digital
ColorSet Calibration 1.0.0a
Needs: ColorSet Calibration 1.0.0, ColorMatch v1.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Improved compatibility and reliability with System 7.5, with future color management system components, and with several Apple hardware configurations.
Fixes
- Several unspecified obscure problems.
Vendor's web site.
DeltaPoint, Inc.
DeltaGraph Pro 3.5.1
Needs: DeltaGraph Pro 3.5
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- This update was reported on in the November 1994 issue but we had no change info at that time. Separate updaters are available for 68K, fat and Power Mac versions.
Fixes
- Problem of the Save As 2.0 format feature creating a file which was NOT readable by v2.0 (Mac or Win).
- Inability to modify files originally created in v3.0x and earlier.
Discovery Systems International Inc.
Course Builder 4.2.4
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Sound problems when playing applications on an '040 processor (appears when playing a sound while displaying user input).
- 90 degree color table shift when editing bit-mapped images on Power Macs.
Notes
- Contact Discovery Systems for a free program disk update.
Dubl-Click Software Corporation
ClickChange 2.5.1
Needs: ClickChange 2.5
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problems working with PopupFolder.
- Other unspecified problems.
Dubl-Click Software Corporation
Icon Mania! 1.0.2
Needs: Icon Mania 1.0.1
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Redraw problem which creates incorrect icon masks when an icon is pasted into another icon.
Additions
- Support for drag and drop of files from the Finder under System 7.5.
Equilibrium
DeBabelizer Toolbox 1.61
Needs: DeBabelizer Toolbox 1.6
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Photoshop reader now opens all channels in a Photoshop image.
- GIF writer can now save in interlaced GIF format.
- Wavefront reader now handles 24-bit older Revision 0 type images & can open images from their active window rectangle or full screen rectangle.
- TIFF Group 4 (fax format) now reads the multiple-page subset of this format.
Fixes
- Problems with Slice mode and PICT writer.
Additions
- Support for some larger network environments.
- New features in the Channels and Grid functions.
- FITS (astronomical) reader and writer.
- Portable Bitmap (PBM, PGM, PPM) reader.
Notes
- This update is available only from the Equilibrium BBS.
Farallon Computing, Inc.
EtherWave Adapter Firmware 1.2
Needs: EtherWave adapter
Update Type: Firmware
Fixes
- Problem of adapters sometimes losing contact with the network and needing to be re-powered.
- Sensitivity of adapters to misconfigured routers.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
FWB Software, Inc.
Apple HD Setup 3.1 A/UX Updater -
Needs: Apple HD SC Setup 3.1 A/UX
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- This is a patch to Apple's HD SC Setup 3.1 A/UX to allow it to recognize larger capacity drives.
Fixes
- While attempting to format large-capacity drives, the program errors out and incorrectly reports that the drive is bad and cannot be initialized or selected.
Additions
- Support for Hammer 8700FMF, SledgeHammer 17400FMF, etc.
FWB Software, Inc.
FWB Hard Disk ToolKit 1.6.3
Needs: HDT Primer, Primer Int'l, Primer PE 1.6x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- Similar changes apply to HDT 1.6.3 (International). PE version varies only in having separate versions of the Extension Updater for Hammer and non-Hammer drives.
Fixes
- Improper waking up on PowerBooks with certain drives.
- "Drive not ready" dialog that appears when waking a sleeping hard drive on Duos (fixed in 1.6.2?).
Notes
- Users should also download and install the 1.62 Drive Data file which is used with HDT Primer (non-PE), and Raid Toolkit.
Gryphon Software Corp.
Gryphon Dynamic Effects 1.1
Needs: Gryphon Dynamic Effects, Volume 1, Version 1.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Incompatibility with the Power Mac native version of Premiere 4.0.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Inline Software
PopupFolder 1.5.1
Needs: PopupFolder 1.x US version
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Improved hierarchical menu scrolling.
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