Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!emory!riddle
From: riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Does Continuum have problems with Appleshare?
Keywords: Continuum, Appleshare
Message-ID: <3124@emory.uucp>
Date: 10 Aug 88 03:06:28 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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I have had problems when playing Continuum with crashes upon trying to
quit the game. After much experimenting with moving files in and out of
my system folder, I believe I have narrowed the culprit down to the
Appleshare chooser document.

Setup: System 4.2, finder 6.0 on MacPlus with Dataframe 20

If I start Continuum and immediately quit, without playing, I can get
back to the finder. If I start a game, however, upon quitting I get an
ID=2 bomb, but can choose the restart button in the bomb alert and
restart the mac. When I say "start a game", it is sufficient to do a
cntrl-A to self-destruct your first vessel, then a cntl-Q to get back
to the main menu, then choose "quit" from the file menu.

I removed *everything* from my system folder except for the system file
and the finder. I could then play and quit the game without crashing.
As soon as I put the Appleshare chooser document file in the system
folder (this is the file that shows up in the chooser so that you can
initiate an Appleshare request) then the crashes start to occur again
upon quitting Continuum. This remained true even when I put back all
the other files into the system folder. Without the Appleshare chooser
document, no crashes - with the Appleshare chooser document, crash upon
quit.  This happens whether or not AppleTalk is connected.

A further experiment may prove helpful. I created a floppy containing
only the system and finder from my hard drive, and the Continuum files.
I could boot off this disk and play the game with no problems or
crashes. As soon as I added the appleshare chooser document to the
floppy, the crashes would come back.


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