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Re: Marathon and Executor



On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Gernot Bauer <bauer@edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> wrote:

> A few postings ago, someone wrote that Marathon works with the 
> executor. I am having a bit of a problem:
> 
> Marathon installed and started correctly but when I am in the game 
> the screen does not refresh. When I move, nothing seems to happen but 
> when I put a window in front of the executor-window and flip that 
> window back that the e-window is in front again, it is redrawn 
> correctly. Do I have wrong preferences-settings or is it a bug? 
> (E/l 1.99o - Linux 1.3.14, S3-864 PCI, 486-66). Could it be that its a 
> problem of fvwm?

After reading that note, I grabbed a copy of the Marathon demo myself, and
I ran into a similar problem.  The game menus worked, setup worked, and
the main game screen drew everything but the actual game view in the
center just fine -- however, the center of the screen (the important part,
I suspect <grin>) would not refresh at all unless I waved my mouse across
that portion of the screen.  When I did that, the portions of the center
that the mouse pointer actually passed over would be refreshed. 
Everything else remained black and unmoving.

I'm using E/D v1.99o under PC-DOS 6.3 and Warp 3.0, Diamond SpeedStar 64 
using Cirrus 5434 chipset, 486DX4/100 with 20MB.  

I didn't spend a lot of time trying E/D switches -- there might be an 
obvious solution...?

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