From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24520 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2003 04:53:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24513 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2003 04:53:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta10.adelphia.net) (68.168.78.202) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 2003 04:53:53 -0000 Received: from sbnhxyqkh6 ([68.67.142.93]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030925045355.OYVL7024.mta10.adelphia.net@sbnhxyqkh6>; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:53:55 -0400 From: "Erik Jessen" To: "'Hans Ronne'" , "'Eric McDonald'" Cc: Subject: RE: 7.5 release? - How you can help Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001301c38322$01e0eaf0$6501a8c0@sbnhxyqkh6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00451.txt.bz2 Well, just to ask, how many people on this list know anybody still running 98? Everybody I know runs ME, XP, 2000, Mac or Linux. I don't know any 98 users. That should help determine the priority. As a general question ,what OSes aren't supported? (DOS6.22, Win3.0, etc.). Maybe it's time to put Win95 and maybe Win98 on that list. What about putting counters on the downloads for the various OSes, so you can tell what OSes are going out of favor? This is only of long-term use, of course, and won't help with source-code downloads. Regards, and keep up the good work! Erik -----Original Message----- From: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com [mailto:xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hans Ronne Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:29 AM To: Eric McDonald Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 7.5 release? - How you can help >P.S. I guess I'll have to make sure the Web site says >"approaching" (which I thought it did) rather than "imminent". Or rather, I should abstain from optimistic forecasts on this list :-). Other things to do before a release: 1. Fix the recently discussed font problems in the tcltk interface (almost done). 2. Add several new game modules and update all the existing ones (ditto). 3. Fix the memory problems on Windows. This is the big one. Several game modules crash under Windows 98, probably due to the limit on the GDI resource memory. In fact, after I updated the game modules, adding some more images to imf.dir, every single game crashes under Windows 98 (this is one reason why I haven't checked in these updates yet). I don't think it is acceptable for a release version of Xconq to crash with 100% certainty on what is still one of the biggest installed platforms worldwide, even if it works fine everywhere else. However, I'm not sure what to do about it. I guess we could rewrite the imaging code so that it uses less memory, possibly fix some leaks, but this is quite some work. And it would probably only fix things until the next game module update adds even more images. I would therefore be very interested to hear if there are any known shortcuts or hacks to deal with the GDI resource problem. It is after all a well-known limitation in Windows 98 that many programmers must have stumbled on before. Any suggestions are welcome. Hans