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From: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Solarian II 1.03 now available
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Date: 22 Sep 90 22:40:03 GMT
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  Hallo all.  This is Ben Haller, author of Solarian II.  This message is a
little premature, but only a day or two, so whatever...
  Solarian II version 1.03 is now clearing comp.binaries.mac.  The new
version does a number of good things, too many really to go into in any
depth.  It corrects all known bugs, including the
"My-desktop-is-black-all-over" bug and the problem with 24-bit video cards.
It works under A/UX, and it works under System 7.0 to the best of my
knowledge.  I think when System 6.0.6 is released the sound may have a
little trouble since Apple broke part of the Sound Manager, but I'll be
releasing 1.04 or 1.05 someday to deal with that maybe if I feel like it.
  Once it is clear, download away.  It has been sent to
sumex-aim.stanford.edu for anonymous ftp, but they seem to be taking a
while to clear it (last time I checked was a day or two ago, so it may be
there now).  Once it fully clears comp.binaries.mac it will be reposted on
CompuServe, BIX and GEnie by a friend of mine, so it will be on those once
it clears their moderators or whatever.
  Some people have talked about commercial distribution for Solarian II.
Just to make it public, I have decided against that, mostly because it's
too much trouble and I have no easy way of finding out if the various
companies that have offered commercial distribution are trustworthy, etc.
It will probably be distributed on at least two CD-ROMs, though, although I
won't mention any names since I'm not really *sure* those deals are going
through yet.  Well.  Enjoy the new version, spread it across MacLand to
everyone everywhere...thanks for your support.  A special thanks, by the
way, to the people who beta-tested version 1.03.  A/UX compatibility would
have been a pain without them, and they had some good suggestions that I
put into the new version.
  Bye.  Later.

-Ben Haller (deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu)