Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!rrr From: rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: MaxAppleZoom theory Keywords: MaxAppleZoom Message-ID: <34528@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 17:35:14 GMT Article-I.D.: shamash.34528 References: <77@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <7700@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <7709@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <7726@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com Reply-To: rrr@svl.cdc.com Organization: Control Data Corporation, Silicon Valley Operations Lines: 28 In <7726@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> ospwd@mathcs.emory.edu (Peter Day {EUCC}) writes: >MaxAppleZoom appears to have some strange bug in it that causes it to >stop working after a certain date. The date is dependent on which >NuBus slot your video card is in. If your card is in slot 1, >MaxAppleZoom stops working on June 22, 1991. If you move your card to >a higher slot you will gain approximately 12 days (10^20 seconds) >before MaxAppleZoom quits for each slot you move. So you can still use >MaxAppleZoom until some time towards the end of August if your card is >in slot 6. You can always set your clock back also. >Hopefully by the time the last slot runs out, someone will have heard >from Naoto on how to fix this problem. I don't run MaxAppleZoom anymore because it won't work with 2 monitors. However, Monday the problem surfaced for some folks and my immediate fix was to replace MAZ with a new copy on the theory that it got munged. Sure enough, that cured the problem. Having watched this discussion, all talk seems to be about versions 1.2 and 1.3. The version that I used for replacement is labeled 1.31. I wonder if it has different behavior than 1.3? I can't remember now where I got it from although I vaguely recall maybe getting it from America Online which I visit infrequently. BTW, one of the folks here who has paid the author has heard nothing from him about upgrades, date problems or anything (for what it's worth). -- Richard R. Ragan rrr@svl.cdc.com (408) 496-4340 Control Data Corporation - Silicon Valley Operations 5101 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054-1111