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Re: About Executor/DOS 1.99h...
Hi Jacques,
Your problems have been noted. You're not the only one seeing stuff
like this, so the problems shouldn't be too hard to track down.
January was just a crappy month for us. We should be back on track
soon.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
>>>>> "Jacques" == Jacques Pannetier <ZAZOU@delphi.com> writes:
Jacques> About Executor/DOS 1.99h, the demo version: It seems like
Jacques> it is a mixed blessing over Executor/DOS 1.99f. My
Jacques> problem, is getting Executor up and running. Once it
Jacques> does, things are overall much better than the previous
Jacques> version.
Jacques> My system is a 486-DX2 with *4* Meg of RAM, and Executor
Jacques> is launched with *no* parameter, and under plain DOS
Jacques> (except for the mouse driver, -no- resident program
Jacques> loaded)
Jacques> On the plus side: -Memory manager seems "fix", and memory
Jacques> paging seems to work. COmpared to E/DOS 1.99f, crashes
Jacques> occur frequently (even with -noclock) when I see the hard
Jacques> disk's LED lit while running a big program. With E/DOS
Jacques> 1.99h, no crash, related to memory paging, has been
Jacques> experienced so far.
Jacques> -Executor now defaults to a screen resolution of
Jacques> 640x400 instead of 640x480 in E/DOS 1.99f, which helps to
Jacques> make small letters look a bit bigger (and less hard to
Jacques> read) Thanks a bunch! :-)
Jacques> -Once Executor ends, the system clock no longer run
Jacques> 4X faster.
Jacques> On the down side: - The MAJOR problem, is getting
Jacques> Executor up... and running. As I said, Executor was
Jacques> started with no parameter on the command line. The
Jacques> symptoms look random, here are those experienced, so far:
Jacques> - Executor would start, and I can move the mouse,
Jacques> however, Executor is freezed: will not respond to clicks
Jacques> from the mouse, and seem to to ignore the keyboard,
Jacques> except ctrl-break, which dump me back do DOS, thankfully.
Jacques> - On start up, the screen blanks, and a LOUD
Jacques> annoying beep that seems to never end is emitted. The
Jacques> only way out seems to be a hard reset.
Jacques> - On start up, sometimes a segmentation or
Jacques> protection faults comes immediately, and I'm back to DOS.
Jacques> For some reasons, After a second or third try, Executor
Jacques> will start normally. It seems I can not get it up and
Jacques> running on the *first* try. As I said, once Executor is
Jacques> up and running, applications seem to run OK.
Jacques> Hope this helps!
Jacques> -Jacques #include <stddisclaimers.h>
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