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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.

    Mike> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (~) Copyleft
    Mike> 1996 MSerrano Productions, Inc., CNS Division
    Mike> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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