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From: russ@key.COM (Russell Donnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Portable yes, Mac NO !
Keywords: Software BOMB
Message-ID: <1255@key.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:00:36 GMT
References: <2106@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: russ@xanadu.key.COM (Russell Donnan)
Organization: Amdahl, Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont, CA, USA
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In article <2106@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> sharp@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>
>     I just played with a portable.  One of the tests I like to do is
>Crystal Quest.  See how many critters you can get without bogging
>down the machine.  Well, version 2.2 CRASHES THE PORTABLE !!!! It
>does not crash SE, SE/30 or MacII types.  Modified ROMS huh ?  I guess
>it is back to the drawing board or find a fix time !
>
>	maurice

My educated "guess" is that this happens because Crystal Quest checks
for color quickdraw by looking at the machine number.  Since the machine
number is one that it doesn't recognize, it does a >n.  The premis
that Apple would NEVER make a new machine without color quickdraw
obviously was a mistake.  ;-)  Crystal Quest is not the only program
with this problem.  A lot of MS programs have the same result for
the same reasons.  (sigh)

-Russ

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