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- From: ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
- Subject: Re: Wolf3d and 4dos
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <C0D6Bp.HCo@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1993Jan5.081741.25882@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:08:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.081741.25882@netcom.com> 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.
- >
-
- But the game used work fine except (3) before I installed 4DOS and 4OS2.
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