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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
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Date: 9 Aug 89 17:44:58 GMT
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In <1989Aug9.112635.9161@aucs.uucp> peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) writes:
>> My dear sir, Blast is one of the most elegant and entertaining FKEYs I've 
>> ever seen.  It can provide hours of amusement as well as allowing easy 
>> access to obscured items.
>
>I'd like Blast better if it made nice neat square holes. The ragged
>hole it now makes just slows things down and detracts from the potential
>usefulness of this "entertaining" fkey.

So? Just tell your local Mac guru to launch his/her Think/Lightspeed Pascal
and type the program from the October 1987 MacTutor. The complete source
code is about 1.5 pages long. You might also want to fix the problem I
just described in comp.sys.mac.programmer. Most of the source code is
to make the hole ragged and to generate the laser cannon sound.

My version of Blast has a bug. It crashes inside PaintBehind after six
or seven holes. (Even the Finder crashes.) Looking at the object code,
I see that this is not exactly the same program that is printed in MacTutor.

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