OpenEuphoria

Re: Falling Speckles Exercise

• Posted by Robert Craig <robert_craig at COMPUSERVE.COM> Apr 25, 1997
• 875 views

James Powell writes:
> runs fine for 10 only seconds or so.  Within that 10 seconds, if the user
> hits any key, the program exits.  Good, thats the way its programmed.
> BUT, if it is allowed to run longer than that, everything still LOOKS
> normal, ie. the snow falls (eating as it goes) until a key is pressed.  As
> soon as the key is pressed,
> the program terminates abnormally, generating a Causeway protection fault

I tried fall.ex in a win95 DOS window and there was no problem. However
when I rebooted in (pure) MS-DOS 7.0 mode and ran it, I was able to
duplicate the problem exactly as described. I'm not sure yet if it's due to
a bug in Euphoria, the Causeway extender, or your program, but I would like
to warn other people not to run this program because after it crashed,
SCANDISK detected and corrected a minor disk error. I wouldn't want other
people to risk damaging their file systems.

I'll report back to this list once I figure out
what's going wrong here.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

Regards,
  Rob Craig
  Rapid Deployment Software