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1.99 p9/q experiences



Having finally got a chance to play with 1.99 p9 and q for DOS (too much
work lately...) I can report that Broderbund's "Just Grandma and Me"
CD-ROM works under both p9 and q with sound. (Up to and including 1.99p5
it would lock up while drawing the title page). The sound's a bit choppy
(as are most things I've tried so far) but it is intelligible. Well done
ARDI!

On the other hand, the "Oh No More Lemmings" demo, while it works, is
dreadfully slow on my home system with 1.99q; the countdown counter
decrements about every 5 seconds. I admit my home system's not exactly
cutting edge (486DX-33, 16MB RAM, ET4000-W32 local bus video,
double-speed SCSI CD-ROM, Soundblaster 16) but I'm sure it should be
faster. It is a bit faster with p9; the countdown decrements every 2-3
seconds on that version. The presence (or not) or UniVBE 5.1 makes no
difference. It's OK on my work machine however, though that's a 486DX2-66
with no sound card. I will make further tests to see if it's the sound
support that's causing the slowdown.

The other oddity is that the Crystal Quest 2.2.3 demo will only run in
B&W mode under 1.99q, even if you delete the .ECF file in the CONFIGUR
subdir; you can't get to the Cmd-Shift-5 panel. It works in colour under
p9 though there's no sound in either case.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcomed.