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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Wolf3d and 4dos
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.104244.2167@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 10:42:44 GMT
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- samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
-
- >ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:
-
- >>I need help with the Wolf3d setting under OS/2.
-
- >>The game runs fine until it starts loading up the mission. When the red line
- >>reaches the right side the machine crashes. When I go to DOS box then load up
- >>the game I can go to WPS and kill the session, but when I run it directly by
- >>double clicking on the WOLF3D game icon the whole machine crashes and I have to
- >>do a cold boot.
-
- >>I'm using 4DOS and 4OS2 on a 386-33 with a Soundblaster Pro card. I'm using
- >>IRQ 7 at this moment and I'm going to try IRQ 3 when I get time.
-
- >1. Change the "retrace emulation" setting under dos to "off". This was what
- >was killing you.
-
- >2. I recommend setting the "interrupts during I/O" (don't have one ? see next).
-
- >3. Install the SP if you have not already done so. It fixes a hangup when the
- >game exits (you would will see if after you fix (1)), and also adds 2.
-
- >4. The last time I checked, making a windows out of wolfie crashes os/2.
- >I know of no fix, just don't go back to the desktop until you finish the
- >game.
-
- The right answer is in fact: change the xms setting to 64k
- exactly if you have DOS=high set and change EMS to 0.
- If haven't experienced any problems running wolf in a window,
- except that due to the way wolfd uses the video card, the
- window is messed up. (split into several equal bits).
-
- > sam
- >--
- >Scott A. Moore [SAM] | "Cash is more
- >samiam@netcom.com | important than your
- >Santa Cruz, CA USA | mother"
- >408-423-1624 | Allan Shugart - CEO Segate Corp.
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Erik van Linstee | Delft University of Technology | I'll be back ...
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