Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:25:53 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 16:05:41, Ed Schröder wrote: [snip] >>Video games also >>violate memory all the time and are a prime example of how dangerous people who >>don't know how to program can be. That's probably somewhat of an exaggeration, >>but in general the quality of video games is the lowest of all. > >Examples? My youngest son buys video games all the time and puts them on one of the computers at home. They usually won't run under NT, but when they do, it is not at all unusual to have a memory violation error. Fortunately, NT is good enough to trap it and not bring the whole system down. On two occasions, I was annoyed enough to use bounds checker to find the actual address of the thing causing the violation and send email to the game manufacturer. In neither case did I even get any kind of sensible answer from the vendor. I have Windows 2K on one of my machines at home. Games seem to run on it more often than NT. But that makes my youngest son happy and me just mildly annoyed. [snip]
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