Re: disappearing screen fonts

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:00

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Bizmallah <postmaster@berling.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> Yes, once... I beleive its because you are running a 68k application on
> OS 8.5 (check the about this computer, in the apple menu for the OS
> version), which ships with the G3s.
> 
> OS8.5 stripped away a lot of the old 68k code which some applications
> use, hence the drop-out.

This shouldn't matter at all - the API (application programmer
interface) hasn't changed AFAIK.  In other words, the 68k versions of
the system calls have been replaced with PPC versions.  MacOS X is a
different matter.

A better place to ask about this point would be comp.sys.mac.programmer

Rowland.

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