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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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Zu Ylem Dragon
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Gernot Bauer
University of Linz, Austria
gbauer@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
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