Desktop Fractal Design System warning

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From: Spencer W. Thomas
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 1990 16:16

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At SIGGRAPH I bought Barnsley's Desktop Fractal Design System for the
Macintosh (published by Academic Press).  It's a neat program, but
will not run on all Macs.  I should have been suspicious when I read
the sentence that said you should run with only a single monitor so as
not to "confuse" the "low-level graphics routines".

If you run DFDS on a Mac II with a screen larger than the standard
Apple video card, it will crash.  I have tested this on a Mac II at
school with a Radius TPD, and a Mac II at home running MaxAppleZoom
Init.  It crashed in both cases.  When I removed MaxAppleZoom from my
startup set, DFDS ran just fine.

I consider this to be basically unacceptable behavior, but I haven't
decided whether to try to get my money (<$30) back, yet.

If you're considering buying this program, be aware of this "gotcha".

--
=Spencer W. Thomas              EECS Dept, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
spencer@eecs.umich.edu          313-936-2616 (8-6 E[SD]T M-F)

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