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RoboWar + Feed Back - BUGS

-- Email Feedback

Please email general feedback to me at elmorian@zetnet.co.uk

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-- Known Bugs in: RoboWar4.5

The known bugs in RW 4.5.1 are:

- Printing: Printing has been disabled. Will be fixed for 4.6
- MacOS7.5.1 to 7.5.3 Conflict: RoboWar4.5ppc doesn't work on PowerMacs running System 7.5.1 to 7.5.3. It does work on Macs Running System 7.0 and 7.1. If you want to use RoboWar on a Mac running System 7.5.1 to 7.5.3 then you should either upgrade to System 7.5.5 (free: download from www.apple.com) or use RoboWar4.5 for 68k Macs. Will be fixed for 4.6
- Alias problem: RoboWar can't open aliases of robots in a tournament folder. Will be fixed for 4.6
- Find: can cause a infinite loop = crash. and can't find anything after 32k. [fixed-interal]
- Intermittent Syntax colouring/WASTE related bug - causes crash in drafting board.
- Stunners don't disable a robot properly while it's being debugged.
- While debugging execution order is different from chronon/steping to 'go'.
- Compiler bug that sometimes tries to compile a robot of more than 5000 instructions (should bring up an error), can cause a crash.
- Random number generater isn't very random, battle repeats happen. - will be fixed for next release.
- Debugger icon is drawn to frontmost window - even if it's a different application! - will be fixed for next release.
- chronon per second display sometimes has cosmetic bug.- will be fixed for next release.
- Speed at normal should be limmited.- will be fixed for next release.
- File type outputted by robowar for tourney logs and tourney info is of the wrong type, not of the type set in the prefs. - will be fixed for next release.
- pagedown/pageup doesn't work in Drafting board.- will be fixed for next release.
- during a test tourney going to a robot's error can cause robot to be lost -> not sure if this is real or not, still trying to reproduce it.
- rti allows jumps to negative positions in code - will be fixed for next release (Fixed Internal).

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-- Email Bug Sighting

Email Bug Reports to me at elmorian@zetnet.co.uk. In your email please let me know the following (If possible):

Hardware: What kind of computer you are using (eg. LC475, Performa6200, G3 Desktop etc).

Software: What version of RoboWar you are using. And what version of the MacOS (System Version) you are using.

How and when RoboWar you saw the BUG: Please can you tell me as specifically as possible what you tried to do when RoboWar crashed, or you noticed the bug.

Can you get it to happen consistantly: Can you find out exactly how the bug occurs so that I can reproduce it.

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