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