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Crash on Quit: still a problem for CYBERAmazon
CYBERAmazon sent me the following PM regarding the crash on quit problem, and gave me permission to post it on the Mac Forum (the following are excerpts from multiple PM's):
I'm using Civ II, not the Gold edition (the latter nearly always crashes when quitting out of the program ... despite extensive testing and betas from Brian (Nesse), we were never able to solve that bug).
I replied that after upgrading to OS 8.6 and using the current Civ2 MPG patch ver. 1.1.1, my crashing problems seemed to disappear.
I'm using MacOS 8.5.1, BTW. I'm really antsy about updating OS files, though, because if the update goes wrong, the POOF! So much for having a working computer for the time being.
Brian (Nesse) didn't think it was an OS fault, though, because everything else in Civ II and Civ II Gold worked properly except for the that "exit" bug.
After cruising around old Mac threads, I found where Berzerker said that after reinstalling the OS on his Mac, the Barb Crash problem stopped (see the resurrected Barb Freezes thread). The reason I bring this up is that I performed a "clean install" of the OS when I upgraded to OS 8.6. That along with Berzerker's comment makes me wonder if cleaning up the OS was key to the problems.
So, is anyone still having the "Crash on Quit" problem? If your problem went away, what seemed to be the fix? Any correlation with Clean Installs of the OS?
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Be what you is and not what you is not. Folks who do that are the happiest lot!
- Mr. Wizard the Lizard,
I'm using Civ II, not the Gold edition (the latter nearly always crashes when quitting out of the program ... despite extensive testing and betas from Brian (Nesse), we were never able to solve that bug).
I replied that after upgrading to OS 8.6 and using the current Civ2 MPG patch ver. 1.1.1, my crashing problems seemed to disappear.
I'm using MacOS 8.5.1, BTW. I'm really antsy about updating OS files, though, because if the update goes wrong, the POOF! So much for having a working computer for the time being.
Brian (Nesse) didn't think it was an OS fault, though, because everything else in Civ II and Civ II Gold worked properly except for the that "exit" bug.
After cruising around old Mac threads, I found where Berzerker said that after reinstalling the OS on his Mac, the Barb Crash problem stopped (see the resurrected Barb Freezes thread). The reason I bring this up is that I performed a "clean install" of the OS when I upgraded to OS 8.6. That along with Berzerker's comment makes me wonder if cleaning up the OS was key to the problems.
So, is anyone still having the "Crash on Quit" problem? If your problem went away, what seemed to be the fix? Any correlation with Clean Installs of the OS?
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Be what you is and not what you is not. Folks who do that are the happiest lot!
- Mr. Wizard the Lizard,
To the task at hand, Finbar gave OS 9 a try and cursed for many a day before finally ripping it of the hard drive. Don't know if he ever went back to it or whether he tried the patches. I think his major problem was with MS Word. But it's good to know that OS 9 is Civ friendly since that Civ will be running in the OS 9 "Classic" shell of OS X. I'm still too cheap to buy 9 to then buy X for only a few months of use. I'll probably wait until the official release of X, or until the next computer upgrade; I have an iMac Rev b 233 MHz and a Performa 6300, 100 MHz. 
(PC's and game stations not with standing
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