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Okay! Yet another issue released, but unfortunately, half an hour before
release, YAB was found. YAB is a name inspired by the UNIX program YACC.
Like YACC is short for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", "YAB" is short
for "Yet Another Bug". This bug is the same bug that we met the first
time we went "legal" by actually allocating the memory we used. Strangely
enough, I have not found out exactly how to make this bug appear. Last
time I did it was by loading the soundtracker music, loading the "Famous
Last Words" article, loading part II of "the Dying Ritual", loaded part I
of the same book, and then loaded the poetry article.
What happens is that the file doesn't unpack properly. Actually, it's
like the unpacker just "gives up" or something... Loading another small
article usually fixes it again, and you can try to load the article you
didn't get to read again. If that doesn't work, you probably have to exit
the program and restart it. I'm thinking of adding a "reinit" function on
the options menu. Right now, however, there is no time... SCRIBA MUST BE
RELEASED TODAY! It's too late as it is.
Strangely enough, I have not been able to force this bug to appear
while playing the blipp blopp music.
Anyway, when the next Scriba program is released, it should be enough
just to use that program on the old data.bin file. But beware... THIS
program will not work on the previous issues of Scriba, as we are now
using our own archive method. We're about to make a standarization of
that data.bin file, very soon, as a matter of fact, we're almost there,
and when the standard has been completed, we will rerelease all previous
issues as data.bin files.
So... now that I have warned you about the UIB (UnIdentified Bug) I saw
just before release, you won't need to hit me because an article doesn't
load properly.
Now I've got to rush to actually release this stuff... Au revoir...
Lean back and enjoy this issue! We've worked very hard this time!
Especially on the program!
If you think our contribution to the Atari society is worth what we are
doing, please acknowledge this by donations (so far we haven't gotten
anything for this), postcards, fanmail or any other correspondence. We
need to see that there are people out there who read this magazine!
You'll find our correspondence addresses in the magazine. Thanks!