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- From: tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
- Message-ID: <ZiV1wB2w165w@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 14:48:10 EST
- References: <1993Jan6.050040.20059@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: SalzoBoard BBS
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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 proble
- > >>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
- > >>a crawl. I can switch out of the program and kill the task, but it takes o
- > >>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
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- Are you SURE about this?!??! I have been informed that games such as this
- and the SBPRO parrot will never work under OS/2 because of the filthy way
- they try to use the hardware timer. I cannot get either to work in ANY
- kind of DOS session including VMdisk. Both fail when they try to talk.
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- Tom Salzmann <tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
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