Re: Steamband for RISC OS _ DO NOT USE

Harriet Bazley wrote:
> 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 ;-)

> 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?

Who the hell wrote this OS anyway? It sounds suspiciously like Windows 
ME by another name, by these descriptions. Or maybe Windows 3.1. No 
proper protected mode? App faults easily b0rk the whole OS? Apps can 
scribble on key OS memory pages willy-nilly? Even Windows 98 was 
(slightly) safer than this! Almost nothing can knock my WinXP boxes down 
-- only buggy drivers, and apps that set off bugs in buggy drivers. That 
mainly means one or two high-end games like Quake IV. Linux, I've heard, 
is nearly invulnerable to this sort of thing. Meanwhile here you are, 
apparently using something that goes bump in the night. Or maybe just 
goes splat.