Re: Help? Can't save 'Curses'!


22 May 1995 19:23:16 -0400

In article <Yjk_4rm00WB3M8xh5C@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Andrew C. Plotkin <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
}dmhartma@students.wisc.edu (Dorinda Hartmann) writes:

}> Here's my trouble. I downloaded Curses and ZIP from an archive onto my Mac
}> Classic (black and white, system 7, 4/40). I can play the game fine, but
}> whenever I try to save my position, I get a box-with-a-bomb, and the
}> message that there has been an 'address error.'
}
}rec.games.int-fiction would be more appropriate (this group is about
}writing games, that one is about playing them) but I don't think
}anyone will sweat it.
}
}My guess is that the ZIP program is written in such a way that it
}tries to write a long integer to an unaligned memory address. This is
}legal on 68020 and higher, but it crashes a 68000, so it's a common
}problem with programs developed on newer machines. (I've made that
}mistake.)
}
}Unfortunately there's not much you can do unless you want to download
}the code and debug it.

There's really nothing wrong with the CODE-- I banged my head against
this for quite a while. It turns out to be corrupted libraries -- the
current 1.1 revision of ZIP on ftp.gmd.de SHOULD have fixed it. If
that's the revision Dorinda has, I don't know...