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Re: Problems with Marathon



> I've read a few postings here about playing Marathon with Executor, but I 
> just haven't been able to get this to work.  I've tried both E/D and E/L, 
> and both suffer from this strange problem where the screen goes into 1bit 
> color mode, making the menus impossible to see.  I can use then prefs. 
> panel to shift them back to 256 (in DOS anyway, my E/L ignores this at 
> this point, I don't think it's accepting stuff from the keybd.), but the 
> pallette is all wrong.  I can then pull up the menus, change stuff, etc.  
> Click on OK, and celebrate, becuase it fixed the palette, and things look 
> awesome.  Then I hit play, and it crashes.  In E/D, I just get a DOS 
> prompt, and E/L seg faults. (Or, if I stay in 1bit color, sometimes It'll 
> quit back to the browser.)  I've tried this both with and without 
> refresh, and using various applzone sizes, including 12000 as suggested 
> by a previous poster.

Greetings Timeless Dragon,

Maraton works fine with my computer (486-66, Linux 1.3.4, S3-864). 
Best get E/L 1.99o and use it with 256 colors. Switch the refresh to 
10 - 20 and start Executor with no options. 

Hope it helps. Peace,

Zu Ylem Dragon
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Gernot Bauer

University of Linz, Austria
gbauer@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
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