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From: das@Apple.COM (David Shayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacsBug 6.2b1 causes Solarian to crash
Message-ID: <47645@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 90 07:36:17 GMT
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In article <1267@cameron.egr.duke.edu> jdsb@coachk.egr.duke.edu (John D. S. Babcock) writes:
>     When I have MacsBug 6.2b1 running on my IIsi and I try to run
>     Solarian 1.03, I continually get kicked back into the MacsBug
>     screen at the Solarian startup screen, even when I use 'g'.
>     I cannot get a game to start.
>     If I place MacsBug in a folder and reboot, Solarian runs fine.
>     Can someone duplicate this?  Is it me? Solarian? MacsBug Beta?

Its highly unlikely that Macsbug is responsible for the bomb.  More than
likely, Macsbug takes up some memory, and Solarian loads at a different
location, and a dangling pointer in Solarian which happened to hit an innocent
byte in memory now hits an important byte, and you bomb.  The original
Solarian crashed on a IIci, and had to be upgraded to wor.  I wouldn't
be surprised if the same was true of the IIsi.

David