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Re: Falling Speckles Exercise

• Posted by Michael Bolin <michaeltom at GEOCITIES.COM> Apr 25, 1997
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> The problem is, its slower (currently), and a bit buggy (the snow falls
> THROUGH things rather than building up!).
> However, those problems can be fixed.  The REAL problem, however, is that it
> 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
> (or similar)!!
>
> I cant figure out why, so im sending the code and a CS.ERR file.  Hopefully
> someone can spot the bad section of code.
> James Powell

Here's the corrected source. I've added comments to show where the
bugs were, and how I fixed them.

I'm pretty sure that the Causeway error came from the snow falling
off the bottom line of the screen. I've shown why in the code.

Regards,
               Michael Bolin