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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Crashes when icon selected
Summary: Mangled icons can cause crashes
Message-ID: <1228@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 90 02:25:15 GMT
References: <2948@mindlink.UUCP> <1662@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <2948@mindlink.UUCP> a499@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) writes:
>Well, it [system crashing when icon double-clicked - hgr] also has been
>happening to me for a LONG LONG LONG time.

One way to crash an Amiga in a colorful way is to modify a "tool" or
"project" icon and change one byte to make it look like a "disk" or "drawer"
icon.  If you double-click on that icon, WorkBench will attempt to read the
nonexistent window parameters from that icon file, stomp on low memory, and
cause the blitter to make pretty garbage on the screen.  If you're lucky,
the lights on all the floppies and the modem will flash in a syncopated
rhythm and the audio ports go "gurk gurk gurk" before it crashes.

Like most "corrupted copper-list" crashes, it is quite spectacular.
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