riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle) (08/10/88)
I have had problems when playing Continuum with crashes upon trying to quit the game. After much experimenting with moving files in and out of my system folder, I believe I have narrowed the culprit down to the Appleshare chooser document. Setup: System 4.2, finder 6.0 on MacPlus with Dataframe 20 If I start Continuum and immediately quit, without playing, I can get back to the finder. If I start a game, however, upon quitting I get an ID=2 bomb, but can choose the restart button in the bomb alert and restart the mac. When I say "start a game", it is sufficient to do a cntrl-A to self-destruct your first vessel, then a cntl-Q to get back to the main menu, then choose "quit" from the file menu. I removed *everything* from my system folder except for the system file and the finder. I could then play and quit the game without crashing. As soon as I put the Appleshare chooser document file in the system folder (this is the file that shows up in the chooser so that you can initiate an Appleshare request) then the crashes start to occur again upon quitting Continuum. This remained true even when I put back all the other files into the system folder. Without the Appleshare chooser document, no crashes - with the Appleshare chooser document, crash upon quit. This happens whether or not AppleTalk is connected. A further experiment may prove helpful. I created a floppy containing only the system and finder from my hard drive, and the Continuum files. I could boot off this disk and play the game with no problems or crashes. As soon as I added the appleshare chooser document to the floppy, the crashes would come back. -- Larry Riddle | gatech!emory!riddle USENET Emory University | riddle@emory CSNET,BITNET Dept of Math and CS | riddle.emory@csnet-relay ARPANET Atlanta, Ga 30322 | (404) 727-7922 AT@T
fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov) (08/10/88)
In article <3124@emory.uucp> riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle) writes: >I have had problems when playing Continuum with crashes upon trying to >quit the game. After much experimenting with moving files in and out of >my system folder, I believe I have narrowed the culprit down to the >Appleshare chooser document. > >Setup: System 4.2, finder 6.0 on MacPlus with Dataframe 20 We have a similar setup, only we have a Mac II with an Apple 40 meg hard-drive, and a couple SE's with 20 megs in them. I've had no problems running Continuum with AppleShare being present and we're connected to several fileservers all at once, so I don't think it's AppleShare that is the problem here. And we've also got a few extra INITs like Moire running and it doesn't interfere with the game at all. Nor has it managed to crash our hard-disk at all. I have noticed that the cursor (the pointer) will tend to dissapear on a Mac II when it is placed in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. You can still use the pointer, you just don't know where it is. The easiest thing to do is put it all the way up the left-hand corner (I realize this hard to do when you can't see the cursor, but it's just a matter of moving the mouse til you think it's where it should be) and then press the mouse button and keep down while going across the menu-bar. The Menus pull-down fine indicating that the cursor is there in memory but not on the screen. Quitting from the game restores the cursor and you're fine. It would be nice to have a command-key that allows you to quit from the game when this happens instead of trying to select quit from the file menu with a cursor that has dissapeared (did everyone get that? :-) Other than that, I've had no problems with Continuum running under system 5.0 (I refuse to let 6.0 on our machines until Apple distributes the fixed version of it - 6.0.1). +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Vangerov | | Just your average Theater Arts major with a weird thing for computers | | fiatlux@ucscc.BITNET || fiatlux@ucscc.ucsc.EDU || ...!ucbvax!ucscc!fiatlux | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+