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Received: from alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.3.8]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27949 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:57:46 -0700 Received: from pizza.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at by alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at with SMTP id AA10428 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <executor@nacm.com>); Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:55:12 +0200 Received: from S05EDVZ____02/SpoolDir by pizza.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (Mercury 1.20); 16 Aug 95 19:56:36 +1100 Received: from SpoolDir by S05EDVZ____02 (Mercury 1.20); 16 Aug 95 19:56:20 +1100 From: "Gernot Bauer" <bauer@edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Organization: UNI-LINZ To: executor@nacm.com Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:56:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Problems with Marathon Reply-To: gbauer@risc.uni-linz.ac.at Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <7ABAE03AB4@pizza.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > I've read a few postings here about playing Marathon with Executor, but I > just haven't been able to get this to work. I've tried both E/D and E/L, > and both suffer from this strange problem where the screen goes into 1bit > color mode, making the menus impossible to see. I can use then prefs. > panel to shift them back to 256 (in DOS anyway, my E/L ignores this at > this point, I don't think it's accepting stuff from the keybd.), but the > pallette is all wrong. I can then pull up the menus, change stuff, etc. > Click on OK, and celebrate, becuase it fixed the palette, and things look > awesome. Then I hit play, and it crashes. In E/D, I just get a DOS > prompt, and E/L seg faults. (Or, if I stay in 1bit color, sometimes It'll > quit back to the browser.) I've tried this both with and without > refresh, and using various applzone sizes, including 12000 as suggested > by a previous poster. Greetings Timeless Dragon, Maraton works fine with my computer (486-66, Linux 1.3.4, S3-864). Best get E/L 1.99o and use it with 256 colors. Switch the refresh to 10 - 20 and start Executor with no options. Hope it helps. Peace, Zu Ylem Dragon ---------------------------- Zu Ylem Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Gernot Bauer University of Linz, Austria gbauer@risc.uni-linz.ac.at gernot@pizza.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at There can be only one! Highlander