ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (10/29/90)
Mon 29-Oct-90: Several users have quite correctly pointed out that my typing tutor game TYPEVADE contains a bug which causes occasional crashes of this program with a message PANFR out of bounds. This bug is very elusive (probably a side effect of inadvertently overwriting something in the memory by another routine). I hope that I have now managed to set it right, but I cannot guarantee anything. Russel A. Fink (rfink@eng.umd.edu) sent a nice feedback message suggesting that the characters should invade from right to left rather than from left to right as they do now. This is a good suggestion. I have added an option to allow choosing the preferred direction. Thanks Russel. Typevades and the two other games (revegame and witpin) which make up the tsgmeb educational games package now start by performing a selftest against tampering and viruses. You can turn off the selftest by applying switch /s. Every now and then some users have been nicely asking me about my programming background. I have included some of my views on these aspects in the tsgmeb.inf information file which is part of the package. The updated package is tsgmeb14.arc in the /pc/ts directory at uwasa.fi archives at the University of Vaasa, Finland. TSGMEB14.ARC Educational games II, Timo Salmi Filename Comment Date Time -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- REVEGAME.EXE Arrange numbers by reversing 10-29-90 06:30:40 TSGMEB.INF Document 10-29-90 07:17:08 TSGMEB.NWS News announcements about tsgmeb 10-29-90 07:07:46 TSPROG.INF List of PD programs from T.Salmi 10-13-90 09:14:26 TYPEVADE.EXE Game for learning fast typing 10-28-90 22:22:08 WITPIN.EXE Solitaire adaptation of draughts 10-28-90 23:39:34 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0006 129703 99952 23% ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun