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Personal Backup X5
Jul 29 2008
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MKTRASHY  How is this product still on the market? It's been years since the switch from the old MacOS (when this was a really good piece of software) to OS X, and this buggy kluge crashes repeatedly. This company and these programmers have had a lot of time to get it right, but it is still floundering. How hard can it be to get it working properly? Do they not know what they're doing, or do they not care? This is what happens when a company buys a software product and doesn't support it with the necessary resources. Either fix it or get off the pot. Feature set is OK, but low marks for stability and obviously a poor value. Stay away from this till they put some heart back into it.  
(Version 10.5.2)

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Personal Backup X5
Aug 25 2008

JFM  I am quite surprised. It is true that there was a time when it used not to be reliable, and I switched for some time to other systems. No longer now, at least in my experience: I use it weekly for cloning my iMac Intel, and it has never failed over the past few months. It is not cheap, but it is easy to use.  
(Version 10.5.2)

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Absolute Backgammon
Aug 5 2006
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MKTRASHY  There is NO way that this game is not cheating somehow. All rolls may very well be random, but that does preclude not the possibility of cheating, e.g. if the computer generates the random number file then the computer knows all rolls in advance. The only sure way to eliminate this possibility is to include an option where values from actual, physical dice rolls could be entered during the entire game and then compare the outcomes of these "manual" games to those where all rolls are computer generated. Often the computer will land on my piece 4-5 times in a row. It takes me 5 rolls to get off the bar with only one space open, while the computer will roll the number it needs after 1-2 rolls, repeatedly.

It crashes with something like "555" and "array out of bounds" errors.

Also, if the doubling cube can, according to backgammon rules, be doubled by either player "AT ANY TIME" then why not include this as a feature?  
(Version 4.8.3)

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Absolute Backgammon
Aug 7 2006

GAMMONSOFT  If you set the option to have the dice rolls saved to a file before the game starts, there is no way it can pick the dice to fit the situaiton, as you suggest.

I will most likely add a feature to input dice rolls later this year. I do have it in David's Backgammon. www.bestbackgammon.com

In my Acey Deucey game (includes backgammon), I have included the ability to get random numbers from random.org, then use them in the game. Perhaps I will add that feature also. www.bestbackgammon.com/aceydeucey

If you would email me with the complete message and circumstances surrounding the crash, I can fix it. An email with the exact message would be greatly appreciated.  
(Version 4.8.3)

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iBatt
Jun 24 2006

MKTRASHY  iBatt 1.2.1 does not run under OS X 10.4.6 on 15", 1.67GHz Powerbook. Quits unexpectedly at startup.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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