Strange Calculator glitch caused by Basic program

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Thu 16 Nov, 2006 7:29 pm

I was running OregonX(an oregon trail game in BASIC) through CrunchyOS today, when it crashed. Due to CrunchyOS's features, it did not clear the RAM. It simply told me when I started it that "temp files were cleared out". When I started the game again, it ran very quickly. Like, 2 or 3 times the normal speed. After quitting, I tried to run super Mario version 2, and the opening screen was garbled. When I started a game(by pushing 2nd a couple times) the game was garbled, with random parts of tiles strewn across the screen. I quit out of mario, and ran the LCD fix program. After that, everything worked fine. OregonX ran at normal speed, and mario had no problem. I'm just curious as to how a basic program managed to do this. Could some one explain it to me?

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 17 Nov, 2006 12:32 am

It wasn't really a basic program fault, Chruchy doesn't fully support basic games. The temp files cleared thing may have reset the LCD fix settings I would guess.

Post by **Dwedit** » Fri 17 Nov, 2006 12:51 am

Running Basic programs from apps is very problematic, I might just kill off that feature from the next crunchyos (assuming I make one).

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 17 Nov, 2006 3:23 am

But why would the game run super-fast after the glitch happened? Also, my calculator didn't need the LCD fix, it worked fine with all the problematic games when I first got it(unlike my last one). It would have had to set a different LCD value that messed things up. Resetting it to default wouldn't have done it.

@Dwedit: This is the first real problem I've had with running basic programs from Crunchy(other than that they run a bit slower). It's a lot more convenient to run them from Crunchy than to have to unarchive, use, then rearchive each time I want to use one. You could make it as an option though, to disable showing BASIC programs in Crunchy's program menu. But I'd appreciate it if you kept it, even if it doesn't always work perfectly.

And I hope you do decide to make another version of Crunchy. I wouldn't use anything else, becuase of the anti-ram clear and anti-program corruption it does. I hated it in Mirage when a program would get corrupted, and clear the ram. Also, the rarity of Garbage Collects is a nice contrast to Mirage's constant ones.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 17 Nov, 2006 3:59 am

CompWiz wrote:And I hope you do decide to make another version of Crunchy. I wouldn't use anything else, becuase of the anti-ram clear and anti-program corruption it does. I hated it in Mirage when a program would get corrupted, and clear the ram. Also, the rarity of Garbage Collects is a nice contrast to Mirage's constant ones.

Ditto

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Thu 23 Nov, 2006 9:11 pm

CrunchyOs needs Folders!!!

I do love the anti corruption/anti garbage options, but I neeeeed folders!

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 24 Nov, 2006 4:15 am

Well, according to Gmail, folders are obsolete. Labels and a good search engine are all you need now.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 24 Nov, 2006 11:06 am

Probably because GMail doesn't support IMAP (which has support for folders and searching anyway), only lousy POP3, and so does its own kludgy thing on top of it.

Folders are good.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 24 Nov, 2006 2:30 pm

yeah, I'd have to agree. It would be nice if gmail had folders.