fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) (01/03/90)
I recently downloaded Tao (Tao ain't Othello) from America Online. It is a rather weak computer Othello game, with some nice features that make it easier for my 5 year old to play it (and she normally beats it, 40-24 or so). I didn't play it much, but just yesterday (Jan 1) my daughter got into it, my wife got into it, and I played several games just to join in. Then something bit us... The mouse button stopped working right. Specifically, clicking and menu dragging only worked on every third try. The problem did not stop when we quit Tao. Rebooting fixed it. Sometimes we could play Tao a few games before it bollixed the mouse. On one occasion, I started Tao up when the problem was active; after that, the mouse button worked only every twelfth try!! A little later, the factor went up again; I stopped counting as I clicked away, gave up, and rebooted. This problem only arose under Multifinder; it seemed at times to be triggered by clicking in a non-active region. The counts are exact; that is, click n worked iff n == 0 mod 3. Disinfectant 1.5 (latest version from comp.binaries.mac) found nothing; there were no INIT or WDEF or DRVR resources in the APP; there were two CODE resources. Anybody got any ideas? The behavior seems a bit deliberate to be a bug. Is Tao taking revenge on us for beating it?? The author has it print and speak some rather obnoxious phrases when it loses; perhaps he had it patch the event handler too. Mark