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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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