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- From: csc2mxs@cabell.vcu.edu (Marko Siladin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Gateway 2000 LB software DOS (Brief)
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 09:51:03 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
- Lines: 39
- Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
- Message-ID: <9211061550.AA19616@cabell.vcu.edu>
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- Hi!
- I posted a message earlier about problems I encountered with the
- new 4DX-33 under Windows 3.1. I tried the 800x600 resolutions today
- again and they worked fine up to (and including) 256 colors. Also I
- was able to run the 1280x1024x16 in the test.exe file (the first time I
- forgot to change the switch to 4-bit mode :( ). However it runs interlaced.
- The 1572FS should be able to run that resolution non-interlaced. But I
- will first talk to the tech-support before I go and change it manually.
-
- Anyway, I wanted to talk about errors (problems) I encountered in DOS
- mode. The problem with the Brief editor was reported already by
- some other people on the 66V. Well, just to let you know, it doesn't work on
- the 33V either. BUT!!! I figured out a way how to run Brief and not to
- get a error (every time but the first time). To make it possible you need
- Borlands Turbo Debugger 286 (I haven't tried it out whith th 86 version, and
- the 386 version makes my system make a cold reboot :(...havn't figured out
- why). So here are the steps hoe I got my Brief running:
- 1. Run TD286 (Mine is Version 2.51)
- 2. Run b.exe from within TD286
- 3. Change the file a little bit (space, bachspa{ce)
- 4. Save the file (ALT-W)
- 5. You get a error message from TD with Exit code 255
- 6. Don't worry
- 7. Reset b.exe
- 8. Run b.exe
- 9. No more Run time error R6003
- 10. Exit TD286
- 11. b.exe works even outside
-
- It would be too good to be perfect. I havn't played around too much
- but I found out that any DOS 'pipe' "|" instrucition gives a divide
- overflow. I'm not shure what I've actualy done with this (at least not yet),
- I hope that some DOS gurus out there might be able to figure out where this
- Runtime error comes from (Looks like Disk I/O to me / although all other disk
- I/O looked fine to me, or like a memory overlap).
- ...Marko
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