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Eric Topp (topp@roses.stanford.edu) wrote:
: I bought Millie's Math House as a gift for my nephews. It works for a
: while and then crashes. After this initial crash it will not work at
: all, bombing after its musical intro.  Reinstalling (which takes a
: while--four disks of compressed material) merely repeats this cycle. ...
: 
: Anyone out there got an answer or care to commiserate?

        I share your frustration.  For the longest time I couldn't even
get it to finish installing on our Mac Plus (with 2.5 Meg of RAM).

        I just spent two days on and off fiddling with Millie's Math
House, trying to get it to work.  Just because this program required at
least system 6.0.7, I upgraded from 6.0.2 to 6.0.8.  Every time the 20+
minute installation would finish (why does this take SO LONG???)  the
install program would crash at the very end with a 'missing coprocessor'
or a 'bad F-line trap', or some other error.  The error message given
almost seemed random.  After each crash I discovered that about 2
Megabytes of free hard disk space was missing.  Apparently the crash
also damaged the 'volume bitmap', which I had to repair using Mac Tools.

        Suspecting that they possibly hadn't tested using 6.0.8, I
upgraded to System 7.  After 4 more 20-minute installations, still no
luck.  Finally on the 5th time it installed!  But it immediately crashed
about 2 minutes after entering the small/medium/big screen (with the
shoes) ...  :-(

        Now I seem to have it mostly going, as long the kids don't enter
the small/medium/big screen first.  Entering any other area first seems
to work.

        I also tried giving the application more memory (up to 1.5 Meg,
3x more than it requested), but this didn't seem to help.  It still
crashed shortly after entering the small/medium/big screen.

        My daughter is excited about using Millie's Math House; it looks
like a really fun program.  Now if I could just get it to run reliably
for her ...

                                             Chuck Corley
                                             x7-4237