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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.050040.20059@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <lkje5rINNrqj@predator.cs.utexas.edu> <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:00:40 GMT
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- In article <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> king@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >> 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.
-
- You can get the mouse running by substituting the supplied MOUSE
- driver \OS2\MDOS\MOUSE in place of your DOS mouse driver. See
- Appendix E of your Installation Guide and/or the online Command
- Reference under VMDISK for further information.
-
- (Note the same applies to the memory manager files -- use the
- OS/2-supplied versions located in \OS2\MDOS.)
-
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