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- About Executor/DOS 1.99h, the demo version:
-
- It seems like it is a mixed blessing over Executor/DOS 1.99f. My problem,
- is getting Executor up and running. Once it does, things are overall much
- better than the previous version.
-
- My system is a 486-DX2 with *4* Meg of RAM, and Executor is launched with
- *no* parameter, and under plain DOS (except for the mouse driver, -no-
- resident program loaded)
-
- On the plus side:
- -Memory manager seems "fix", and memory paging seems to work. COmpared
- to E/DOS 1.99f, crashes occur frequently (even with -noclock) when I
- see the hard disk's LED lit while running a big program. With E/DOS
- 1.99h, no crash, related to memory paging, has been experienced so far.
-
- -Executor now defaults to a screen resolution of 640x400 instead of
- 640x480 in E/DOS 1.99f, which helps to make small letters look a bit
- bigger (and less hard to read) Thanks a bunch! :-)
-
- -Once Executor ends, the system clock no longer run 4X faster.
-
- On the down side:
- - The MAJOR problem, is getting Executor up... and running. As I said,
- Executor was started with no parameter on the command line.
- The symptoms look random, here are those experienced, so far:
- - Executor would start, and I can move the mouse, however, Executor
- is freezed: will not respond to clicks from the mouse, and seem to
- to ignore the keyboard, except ctrl-break, which dump me back do
- DOS, thankfully.
-
- - On start up, the screen blanks, and a LOUD annoying beep that seems
- to never end is emitted. The only way out seems to be a hard reset.
-
- - On start up, sometimes a segmentation or protection faults
- comes immediately, and I'm back to DOS.
-
- For some reasons, After a second or third try, Executor will start normally.
- It seems I can not get it up and running on the *first* try. As I said, once
- Executor is up and running, applications seem to run OK.
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- -Jacques
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