Re: MODzap and SoniqTRACKER

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3941hg$3g3@terrazzo.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>Ok, I have officially declared ModZAP's Quadrascope the most visually 
>appealing MOD player as well as the best sounding... problem... does 
>anyone know of a patch or something that will make it stop crashing?  
>Drives me crazy!  Otherwise, the whole program is brilliant!!

   Anything but the standard player and the 'Turbo' mode (no efx) are
stable. Ian's admitted that, and has apparently fixed the problems for
1.0. But, he's complaining that he doesn't have the new artwork for it;
he seems more concerned about having his name on a cool-looking program
than a totally working one.


>Concerning soniqTRACKER, does anyone know of a patch that will make the 
>damn thing quit properly?  1 out of every 8 "quits" actually returns me 
>to the finder... otherwise I hang there all night.  Yes, I have actually 
>checked... none of these problems are INIT/conflict related.  Any Ideas?

   There's memory-trashing bugs, which is the semi-official rumor.
Basically, soniqTracker stomps on memory which it doesn't own, which
is apparently enough to let it still run without problem, but big
problems crop up after it quits (maybe it's freeing memory it doesn't
own). No, I haven't looked into anything, and have no intention of
doing so. The sources are available, and you're more than able to pour
over the source yourself to look into the trashings...

Nathan Mates


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