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Re: Trying different Apps under E/DOS
>>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
In article <Pine.BSD.3.92.960610232831.24403B-100000@miso.wwa.com> "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
Bill> At work (I work in a software store, and we get bored when
Bill> nobody's in the store, so.....) we were playing with
Bill> Executor (on a Compaq Pentium 100 with 16 megs, 4X, cheap
Bill> Vid. Card, Cirrus Logic I think), and none of the programs
Bill> we tried worked.
Ouch. Reading ahead it appears none except PegLeg worked and that
many of the apps in question needed functionality that we don't yet
provide, but still, Ouch.
Bill> Dramatica Writers Dream Kit (This program, had it worked,
Bill> most likely would have made one of the guys their license
Bill> Executor), died with something about not being able to load
Bill> a file.
If you can provide the exact error message, that will help. If you
can tell us where we can download a demo version (if one is available)
that will help more. Were you putting the programs that you were
trying to run into an HFV, or running them off the DOS filesystem?
When we map to DOS there are some things that might not work properly,
so HFVs are usually better.
Bill> ARPLE (Apple software for sales info, also includes lotsa
Bill> demo stuff), won't run because of no Quick Time, in fact the
Bill> installer (which doesn't need Quick Time) dies.
Although I'd like every program to work, the installer for something
that can't work is not too high of a priority. Of course I'd always
like more information than "the installer ... dies".
Bill> PegLeg (game, don't recall who makes it) seems to work
Bill> beautifully, albeit choppy.
Using Scitech Display Doctor (formerly known as UniVBE) should make it
work much faster, although you'll need to restart in DOS mode. The
choppiness is due to the frame buffer not being linearly mapped.
Bill> Act for Mac (latest version), wouldn't run.
More specifics always help.
Bill> Strata TypeStudio (or something along those lines) wouldnn't
Bill> run (most likely FPU problem)
Bill> 3D XT v 2.5 (all the info I have) wouldn't run.
Bill> These last two probably required FPU units, because both
Bill> have to do with 3D renedering.
Sometimes programs come in two flavors, one requiring an FPU, one not.
I know Swivel-3D is like this. In Swivel-3D's case you can use the
non-FPU version fine.
Bill> I think thats everything we tried tonight, if I come up with
Bill> anything else, will let you know. On all the ones that
Bill> died, I could see something flickering on the screen, like
Bill> its going from Graphics mode to text mode, back to graphics,
Bill> most likely a dump of crash information.
Aha. If you say "executor > crashmsg" then when Executor dies the
crash message will be saved in the file "crashmsg". That infomation
can be very useful.
Bill> I hope this helps someone (ARDI) out there. One of the
Bill> things that really kills our testing is this 10 minute
Bill> limit.
My recollection was that you had already licensed a copy of Executor.
If that's the case then when E2 comes out you'll get the E2 CD-ROM and
as long as you're only using it in one place at a time (and you make
sure people don't copy it), you can take it to work and fiddle around
with it there.
Bill> Does anyone know if KPT Bryce 2.0 works, or is that
Bill> something we need to try?
Needs an FPU, I believe.
Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
Thanks for the information.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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