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Trying different Apps under E/DOS
At work (I work in a software store, and we get bored when nobody's in the
store, so.....) we were playing with Executor (on a Compaq Pentium 100
with 16 megs, 4X, cheap Vid. Card, Cirrus Logic I think), and none of the
programs we tried worked.
Dramatica Writers Dream Kit (This program, had it worked, most likely
would have made one of the guys their license Executor), died with
something about not being able to load a file.
ARPLE (Apple software for sales info, also includes lotsa demo stuff),
won't run because of no Quick Time, in fact the installer (which doesn't
need Quick Time) dies.
PegLeg (game, don't recall who makes it) seems to work beautifully, albeit
choppy.
Act for Mac (latest version), wouldn't run.
Strata TypeStudio (or something along those lines) wouldnn't run (most
likely FPU problem)
3D XT v 2.5 (all the info I have) wouldn't run.
These last two probably required FPU units, because both have to do with
3D renedering.
I think thats everything we tried tonight, if I come up with anything
else, will let you know. On all the ones that died, I could see something
flickering on the screen, like its going from Graphics mode to text mode,
back to graphics, most likely a dump of crash information.
I hope this helps someone (ARDI) out there. One of the things that really
kills our testing is this 10 minute limit.
Does anyone know if KPT Bryce 2.0 works, or is that something we need to
try?
Bill Miller
wjm@wwa.com
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