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From: baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Fortran
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 00:33:24 EDT
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Not superimpressed with Apple's commitment to upward compatibility?

The reason these programs don't work on Mac+'s is that the authors failed to 
read the Tech Notes properly. The thing about HFS is that many authors opted
to kludge the resuls of SF[Get/Put]File. The warning came clearly from Apple
that this was NOT the way to do it. Another hassle was the way many authors
obtained the addresses of the screen/sound buffers. My favourite game wont
run on a Mac+ because of this. And how many people out there have played
Megaroids?

Apple has been pretty good to constantly publish Tech Notes, explaining things
to the programmer. It's a first.


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