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From: s320@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Videx FunPack (vintage 1985)
Message-ID: <28@dasht-i-.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 90 19:35:34 GMT
References: <4086@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <4086@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford) writes:
>
>For years - good grief - I've enjoyed playing Klondike, from the Videx
>Funpack; originally bought for my 128k Mac, its little vagaries
>are getting to me now I have a couple of hard disks and lots of inits.
>
>Vagaries? The <expletive> program insists on a hard reset on quitting. It
>works just fine under multifinder (no Apple menu, tho') and if I left
>it alone all would be well; but...
>
>Does anyone (a) remember this program and - holds breath.. (b) know of
>any way I can defeat its desire to reboot every time I leave it? I do
>have a kosher copy, for what that's worth; are Videx still around?

I remember this puppy...in fact, I just played it last night on
my SE.  The only way I could figure out to kill the hard reset
(I only thought about it for a few seconds) is to hit the interrupt
switch and do an ExitToShell.  It's an es in MacsBug, which I use.

>Thanks in advance...!
>
>- duncan

you're welcome.


Ted

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