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From: bam@sbc2.SGI.COM (Brian A. McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More on Spectre 128 Problems
Summary: Multi-finder is not COMPLETE ca-ca
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Date: 9 Jan 89 18:00:25 GMT
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In article <13234@cup.portal.com>, Richard_Alan_Kaapke@cup.portal.com writes:
> There was mention of problems with HyperCard and MultiFinder on the
> Spectre 128.  DUMP THE MULTIFINDER! FORGET YOU EVER SAW IT!!
> 
> Even Macintosh users hate it; it seldom works to anybody's satisfaction
> on genuine macs.  It seems to really kludge out on less than 4 megs of
> memory, and it will screw up like crazy the special vectors that Spectre
> is trying to use to keep everything working.  Multifinder is ca-ca, folks.
> 
> Richard_Alan_Kaapke@cup.portal.com

Actually, the reason Multifinder causes so many problems is that it removes
all the protection that Dave put it for illegal programming on the Mac.  It
probably also causes problems itself, but most of the crashes are due
to bad programming and occur even on the Mac (and ALWAYs on the Mac II).

Interestingly,  I got Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer last week
and it failed no matter what I did by going into an infinite loop between
the background pattern and a white screen.  Later in the week I was 
running Multifinder and wanted to show someone the problem, and when
I ran AFT, it ran without ANY problems!! (Well, no sound).
	Dave thinks the problem with the first case is that it is doing
page-flipping for the title screen and that is where it dies...why Multifinder
fixed it, noone knows...
	AFT is VERY well-behaved, not protected (in SW anyway, it has
an "enter some info" protection), and alot of fun to play (even better
on a Mac II in color with sound, oh well)..

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			- brian

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