Bomb shelter is a little INIT (it uses up under 1/2 K of memory) that gives you some protection from System Bombs. System Bombs occur when a program goes out of control due to programmer error and crashes the machine. The Macintosh brings up a dialog box that says “Sorry, a System Error has occurred” with two buttons in it, Restart and Resume.
Unfortunately, the Resume button will only be enabled if the application you are currently running specifically enables it. Most don’t. So I created Bomb Shelter.
Bomb Shelter makes sure that the Resume button is always enabled. Clicking on the Resume button will cause the current program to terminate and put you back in the Finder. Once there, you should save any files you may have on a RAM Disk and then Restart.
While this may seem like no advantage over clicking on the Restart button, it actually allows your Macintosh to do some clean up work which makes sure your hard drive doesn’t get corrupted. Also, if the System Bomb was not a bad one, you may be able to continue working without restarting.
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America Online: While you are signed on AOL, choose "Keyword..." from the "GO TO" menu, type AMBROSIA and hit the return key. You'll be taken to our forum, where you'll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
CompuServe: On CIS a majority of our programs can be found in the System forum of the Macintosh forums, with the exception of our games, which can be found in the Entertainment Forum. Contact us if you need specific file names.
eWorld: While you are signed on eWorld, choose "Go to Shortcut" from the "PLACES" menu, type AMBROSIA and hit the return key. You'll be taken to our forum, where you'll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
GEnie: Ambrosia's support area is in the Macintosh Product Support Round Table, located on page 606. To get there, while signed on and in terminal mode, type M606 at any GEnie prompt. Our message base can be found by choosing option 1 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the message boards. The Ambrosia Section can be found by typing SET 4. Our software library can be found by choosing option 3 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the software libraries. Then choose option 8 to set the software library to Ambrosia's library, which is library 14.
Internet: Ambrosia Software's products can be found at the "mac.archive.umich.edu" or "sumex-aim.stanford.edu" FTP sites. Contact us for complete Internet paths to our products.
And last but not least, you can obtain disks from us for $5.00 to cover shipping & handling. You may place your order by indicating the name of the program you are interested in and sending us a check via US mail, faxing us your credit card number & expiration date, sending us your credit card number & expiration date via electronic mail, or calling our 800 number order line: 800.231.1816.
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