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Re: No CD-ROM under Win95, Video Problems
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Serrano <MSerrano@bod.net> writes:
In article <4jpja7$slg@vixc.voyager.net> MSerrano@bod.net (Mike Serrano) writes:
Mike> E/D 1.99q12 is, overall, the best build of Executor ever!
Mike> BUT..... I can't access Mac CD's under Win95. DOS drive E:
Mike> (my CD-ROM) shows up OK but when I either have Mac CD in the
Mike> drive at startup or check for one later, Executor won't
Mike> mount it. In previous builds, E/D would remount a DOS/WIN95
Mike> CD thereby causing Win95 to AutoPlay it (I have AutoPlay
Mike> Extender loaded) and go back to Win95, but would not open a
Mike> Mac CD. Now, E/D doesn't even look for a disk in the CD-ROM
Mike> drive (the light doesn't come on). It might have something
Mike> to do with Win95's use of virtual (32-bit) drivers for the
Mike> CD-ROM (I have *NO* 16-drivers). Have used "-macdrives e"
Mike> and "-dosdrives e" to no avail.
If you don't have MSCDEX loaded and your CD-ROM isn't a SCSI device
then Executor just won't be able to access it. You *can* run MSCDEX
under Windows, but the default is to not do so.
Mike> Mac CD's mount fine under plain DOS. And yes it is a little
Mike> faster and has a little more memory under DOS, but i hate
Mike> waiting 4 minutes to unload then reload the GUI to run DOS
Mike> mode.
Mike> I know ARDI has it's hand full trying to get beta0 out the
Mike> door, but I believe that this bug is significant enough to
Mike> warrent a fix.
There's nothing we can do, unless I misunderstand and you already have
MSCDEX loaded. If so, please let me know.
Mike> In other news..... The Lemmings "Fade/Flash thing" has been
Mike> fixed but now i get artifacts when scrolling in More
Mike> Lemmings Demo and Stuff-it crashed when the screen would not
Mike> redraw correctly when it started (no trace info; it just
Mike> kicked out to DOS), but I haven't been able to create that.
Mike> However, Stuff-it sometimes leaves screen artifacts from
Mike> Browser when it starts or when selecting a menu.
The screen artifacts problem is very bad indeed (showstopper). We'll
get it fixed before releasing beta1.
Mike> I have a 486DX2-66 w/ 8MB Mach32 PCI video using UniVBE 5.1a
Mike> VBE 2.0 and NO linear frame buffer Resolution: 800x600 @ 256
Mike> colors CD-ROM Drive: Mitsumi CRMC-FX001 using Win95 32-bit
Mike> drivers Switches: -size 800x600 -bpp 8 -dosdrives cd
Mike> -skipdrives h -applzone 3M
Thanks. Information is a good thing.
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Mike> 1996 MSerrano Productions, Inc., CNS Division
Mike> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--Cliff
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