rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (05/01/91)
Here's a slight problem I noticed the other night. I hope this hasn't been discussed to death already, but here goes... I have the TrueType INIT supplied with the Personal LaserWriter LS installation package installed in my system folder, along with After Dark 2.0. I opened up the control panel to the General panel (the one with the clock) and let After Dark (can o' worms) take over the screen. Well, the worms started eating everything in sight, but the seconds kept ticking away on the clock. A worm tried to eat the clock, but was destroyed :-) instantly. I then tried this with Starry Night, and the clock still showed through. I don't know if this is a problem with the TrueType INIT, After Dark, or what, but I thought the net would be interested. By the way, all this took place on a Mac IIsi running system 6.0.7. P.S. If you set the RAM cache on a IIsi to at least 768K, games like Solarian II and Diamonds go _much_ faster. I know having a "filler" application also does the trick too, but if you can't settle on which application to use, why not give the RAM to the disk... ------------------------ Randall Cook "That's the trouble with being middle class. rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu Anybody that really cares will abandon you ------------------------ for someone that needs it more." -- Sam Etic
rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (05/01/91)
Sorry, but I forgot to mention in the previous posting that when I removed TrueType from the system folder the problem went away... rc
jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) (05/01/91)
In article <1991Apr30.165304.42362@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >Here's a slight problem I noticed the other night. I hope this hasn't been >discussed to death already, but here goes... [...] >with Starry Night, and the clock still showed through. > >I don't know if this is a problem with the TrueType INIT, After Dark, or what, >but I thought the net would be interested. By the way, all this took place on >a Mac IIsi running system 6.0.7. Use an init manager or rename the your INITs so TrueType loads before the menu clock INIT. Problem goes away. jim -- __ __ / o / Jim Budler jimb@silvlis.com | Proud / / /\/\ /__ Silvar-Lisco +1.408.991.6115 | MacIIsi /__/ / / / /__/ 703 E. Evelyn Ave. Sunnyvale, Ca. 94086 | owner
brecher@public.BTR.COM (Steve Brecher) (05/02/91)
In <1991Apr30.165304.42362@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu notes that with the TrueType INIT installed, the General control panel's clock "showed through" an After Dark screen saver. If the TrueType INIT loads after After Dark, After Dark will not be able to prevent underlying software from writing to the screen during screen saving. The same is true of Pyro!, of which I am co-author. The solution is to rename either the screen saver or TrueType to reverse their relative alphabetical order. -- brecher@btr.com (Steve Brecher)