Beatbox and Appletalk Quirk..

[ppuskari@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Petar E Puskarich)]

Hi there! I was just wondering if anyone out there in netland could
help me verify something concerning the latest release of beatbox...

On this release....  I had the opportunity to run it over and with 
Appletalk active....  I know it says use at your own risk....  it means
it....  if it is setup the way it comes to you as an exe file....


Here is the quirk.  On a lark I changed the file type from $B5 to $B3 
of the beatbox file and left the runtime module alone...   Essentially
this makes the file a GS/OS application instead of just and exe.....

I have Appletalk fully active from Finder and double click....  Voila
it comes up and warns me.... I trudge on.   I load up a mod that is 
on one of my Appleshare volumes and it plays it just fine..No crashes..

okay I close down...Launch GNO ... the real test...  launch the beatbox
application version again  and still everything works just fine no
crashes..!!!!  Very cool.

But if I use the exe version AT ALL with Appletalk active the system hangs
and dies......

So what is so magical about changing the filetypes????  Really there shouldn't
be much of a difference performance wise I wouldn't think....

So if any of you run Appletalk or even BOOT your GS's off a Mac like do 
2 of my three.  Let me know if this minor modification works for you and
make sbeatbox stable under appletalk.....     So far the results are
VERY repeatable...either I crash or I am running strong...

Petar Puskarich
ppuskari@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu