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- From: theriaul@mdd.comm.mot.com (Roger Theriault)
- Subject: Re: STAR TREK: After Dark screen saver EATS IT!!
- Message-ID: <9212221531.AA05810@sun22b.mdd.comm.mot.com>
- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division, Vancouver, CANADA
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:32:43 GMT
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- Warren R. Diamond writes:
- > Recently I purchased the Star Trek After Dark screen saver.
- > Some mysterious things began happening, including
- > 1) corrupted dialing directory in Procomm plus/windows
- > 2) MS-windows Notepad would no longer print complaining about lack of memory
- >
- > Apparently the ST saver has known memory leaks, it
- > eats memory particularly with the randomizer, multimodule, planetside,
- > and final mission modules. This 1.0 release seems to have confirmed
- > all my worst fears about buying 1.0 releases.
- >
- > Has anyone else had some memory unavailable problems, mysterious crashes,
- > while using After Dark?
- >
- Yup, with After Dark 2.0a, and when I called Berkeley Systems, they
- blamed it all on my video drivers. Said I should contact the manufacturer,
- or use the standard VGA driver that came with windows :-)
- The problem I had was the Randomizer; seems every time it switched modules,
- it swallowed a chunk of memory or resources... so I don't run randomizer.
-
- Someone ought to show these guys how to deal with memory properly...
- (and by the way, the Star Trek package is way overpriced... even if
- it worked properly.)
-
- Roger
- (ask me about my problems with Ami Pro 3 and Lotus support, too :-(
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