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Notes about Continuum 1.01
1. Continuum's files (the Galaxy, Highscores, etc) can either be in the
same folder as the main program or in a subfolder named "Cont Files".
2. To erase the high score list, throw the "Highscores" file in the trash
can. Once your name is on the list, you can start another game by clicking
on your name. Only the highest of each person's scores is kept; if one is
vastly better than the rest, it will show through his/her score, not the
number of times the name appears.
3. Continuum will run on any MacII, though the screen should be in 2-bit
mode for clean animation. It will run on the Mac 512K, 512KE, Plus, and
SE, though it is not compatible with Multifinder on these latter machines.
Continuum is incompatible with System file version 6.0 on a Mac 512K through
SE. Apple has promised to fix the bug in 6.0.1. It works fine with any
previous systems. It will not run on a 128K Mac. People tell me it is
incompatible with Appleshare; some have run it (without sound) under A/UX.
4. Version 1.01 is basically a bug fix to version 1.0. The following are
some of the bugs that are fixed in 1.01:
- It now warns you if the ramcache is using the second screen, and
allows you to quit or attempt to run it anyway (see note 5).
- It no longer crashes at the end of a game with the sound off on
a Macintosh II.
- It quits more gracefully if it runs out of memory.
- Level 9, due to popular loathing, is now level 20, closer to where
it should have been.
5. Because Continuum uses the second graphics buffer on all Macs except
the II series, it is normally incompatible with the Ramcache, Macsbug, and
many INITs that use high memory. Using a reserve-second-screen INIT,
however, it is possible to reserve this memory and then use all the other
stuff as well. Click the button marked "Reserve-2nd INIT" ONLY IF YOU ARE
USING A RESERVE-2ND-SCREEN INIT. Otherwise your mac will crash at strange
times, and damage to data might result.
An INIT to reserve the second screen, called "Page 2 Saver", is included
with this release. I didn't write it and I make no claims as to its
safety, but I used it while developing Continuum. Just put it in your
System Folder and reboot; to get it to load before another INIT that
uses high memory, rename it something alphabetically before the
other, like "A Page 2 Saver". This procedure is only recommended
for Macintosh users who really know what they are doing. It is much safer
just to turn the RamCache off before running Continuum.