Re: Steamband for RISC OS _ DO NOT USE

On 9 May 2008 as I do recall,
          Steve Clark  wrote:

> In article <3863799c4f.harriet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>    Harriet Bazley <bazley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On 8 May 2008 as I do recall,
> >           Steve Clark  wrote:
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> Thanks to Harriet & Timo I found the problem.
> 
> > I don't see why lib.user, no option that I know of can do that on
> > purpose so how could it get triggered consistently by a bug?
> 
> That's the clue I'd missed.  <ctrl>dble click does that with bands made
> using Musus' Angband builder.
>
Oh!   I never knew that.   :-)


[snip]

> > Have you got !Re****ter?
> Yes, but I don't think it tests for hardware faults.

I meant for testing which commands in which Obey files were actually
being executed....   :-)

> 
> Timo was right, it may have been a coincidence.  Steamband hanging up
when
> the keboard buffer is overfull is not uncommon, and usually I can only
> escape by quitting the program.

I don't think I've ever seen that but obviously I don't type as fast as
you do.   :-)


It used to hang up on me sometimes when changing level, or when vast
numbers of monsters all attacked at once (usually when you were about to
die anyhow, so I took that as a bonus for the fact that you had to
restart the computer ;-)


> 
> In this case the ctrl key jammed - once I'd stripped down and cleaned
> the keyboard it started working again.  My usual editor - StrongEd - was
> completely disabled by the jammed key, but typing the alphabet on Edit
> had confirmed the problem.
> 
> I  don't know why the sprites went wrong but that is likely a feature in
> the OS.

Oh of course, holding down Control stops application boot files from
being run, so they don't get their sprites set up!   And of course
StrongED has Ctrl-combinations for practically all keys and Edit
doesn't....

[snip]

> Until Steamband hangs on someone again we'll not be sure whether it's
> just an old keyboard or Steamband overwrites something it shouldn't.

Unless it's writing to zero page (wouldn't that get reset on a
power-down anyway?) I'm not sure it could have that sort of lethal
effect on the OS?

> Just in any case - next time I'm using <alt><break> to exit the program.

> 


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