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- Hi Folks,
-
- There were several rather large bugs in 1.99j. We fixed a couple of
- the obvious ones and internally cooked up and tested a 1.99k. We
- found a couple more bugs and have fixed those and are now getting
- ready for another day of testing. If we find no more showstoppers,
- 1.99k will be released sometime after 5pm Mountain Time Wednesday,
- March 1. If we don't release 1.99j then, then I'll send another note
- explainging what's going on.
-
- Here are the bugs that were in 1.99j that were fixed in 1.99k
-
- On some systems Executor used to hang soon after the splash
- screen was dismissed
-
- Various cursor movements could kill Executor
-
- Lemmings under Windows drew trash on the screen
-
- The DOS filesystem wasn't seen by Executor
-
- The license panel had a number of quirks (it still has some,
- but it has fewer)
-
- a few esoteric fixes: ("Seahaven Towers had messed up colors,
- among others)
-
- One major difference that will remain in 1.99k is that CTRL-BREAK no
- longer kills Executor. This is due to an intermediate form of the
- current DOS extender that we're using. CTRL-BREAK should work again
- in a future version. Another drawback is that ALL of Executor is read
- into memory before Executor starts. Previously only enough of
- Executor to get started was read in, and the rest was "demand paged"
- (i.e. read from the disk into memory only as needed). That makes the
- startup time for Executor longer. Future versions will still do this,
- but they'll do it more efficiently, so the startup time will be
- quicker. In addition, we'll be making Executor much more robust when
- running one program after another (As many of you know, there are some
- sequences of programs that you just can't run without exitting
- Executor first if you want proper results.).
-
- I'm also a bit behind in getting electronic keys sent out. We really
- thought 1.99j was a good release. Silly us.
-
- Sorry for not getting this status report out earlier. The last thirty
- hours have been a bit of a blur.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-