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- From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
- Message-ID: <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 21:15:49 GMT
- References: <lkje5rINNrqj@predator.cs.utexas.edu>
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- In <lkje5rINNrqj@predator.cs.utexas.edu> marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:
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- > I have a copy of "Ready for Letters" for my two small children. I have
- >it running under OS/2 (on a clone 486/33 with a SB Pro card on IRQ 5).
- >The program starts and runs (with the music playing just fine). The problem
- >that I have is that if the program "moves" into certain areas (such as the
- >kitchen or the workshop), I get crackling noises, and the system slows down to
- >a crawl. I can switch out of the program and kill the task, but it takes on
- >the order of 60 seconds to paint the WPS screen etc.
-
- > I suspect the problem is with the program and speech generation.
- You are correct, I get the same problem. I can overcome the problem
- by using VMdisk (which effectively gives you a specific DOS 5.0
- session) which fixes the voice problem, but then the mouse doesn't work!
- I have tried all kinds of things with the COM_ settings, but it seems that
- OS/2 reserves COM1 for its mouse use and doesn't let the DOS
- session see COM1 at all.
-
- So at the moment, I just boot DOS from drive A: and in the autoexec.bat
- on that disk I swap over to drive C: and run rfl.bat.
- Let me know if you have any more luck with the VMdisk option.
-
- Paul
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- Queensland, Australia, 4072 \.--._/
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