J.COOK@ENS.Prime.COM (01/05/90)
I appear to have discovered an incompatibility between the 32bit Quickdraw
init (32QD) and Hypercard.
If I have installed the 32QD init, set my monitor to 1 bit/pixel, Black &
White and invoke Hypercard, the system crashes. If I remove the init or
if I set my monitor to 8 bit, color, Hypercard is more or less fine.
You may not care about it, but I was running at least one stack that told
Mac II users to switch to B&W mode to make the animation work properly.
Related problem: Invoking the Apple CD-ROM Explorer stack will normally
crash, no matter what your monitor bit depth is, if 32QD is present.
However, even if I remove the 32QD init, the StarDate demo will not work.
I can get the SE version of StarDate to work, but neither the B&W or Color
version will work on a Mac II. (I have not tried a IIX).
It is possible that a later version of the 32QD init fixes this problem,
but I have not heard of the problem or any fixes for any bugs to 32QD.
I hope this problem is not present in the version of 32QD in the IIci ROMs.
Pertinant information:
6.0.3 Finder,
Hypercard 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2,
Tested on: Mac II with Radius 19" w/ Radius Directcolor/24
& Radius Graphics Accelerator
32 bit QD version 1.0 of 5/8/89 distributed by DTS,
Also tested on: Mac IIx with Apple 13" w/ RasterOps 264, but not sure
of the 32QD version here.
"Finder's Fee" to Apple for this (if it is truely a bug): Send me an update?
Jim Cook
Principal Software Engineer,
Prime Computer, 500 Old Conn. Path, Framingham, Mass. 01701
Email: J.COOK@ENS.Prime.COM
Disclaimer: This is my own misinformation, not Prime's.