Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 15:52:16 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 15:42:34, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On December 03, 1997 at 15:14:00, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>On December 03, 1997 at 15:02:48, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On December 03, 1997 at 14:35:33, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>> >>>>On December 03, 1997 at 14:12:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have lost many hours with >>>>>MCP7 and although I have some experience in config.sys and autoexec. >>>>>stuff and all that hoopla, I did not get anything, except chrashes and >>>>>hours lost for nothing. Dear Marty, if you ever read this, please forget >>>>>the pedantic views of that guys that insist in DOS because they get 0,3% >>>>>more Elo points and think a little more in the simple fact that almost >>>>>all PC users are windows users and think in the also simple fact that to >>>>>play chess is not the reason we have a PC. I think is hard to imagine >>>>>nobody willing to risk his serious, working programs just trying to use >>>>>a DIOS program in Windows platform. Enough is enough. From now on, I >>>>>will concentrate in genius, Schedder or Fritz family or in any >>>>>reasonable winfowed program. I got tired of all this. >>>>>Fernando >>>> >>>>I don't know what your problem is, but I like DOS and I think it is >>>>still a better OS than WIN whatever. >>>>I also don't understand your anger. >>>>I don't have to change my config.sys or autoexec.bat when I want to run >>>>shredder, rebel9 or Wchess in x-mode or normal. >>>>I have a menue and I can choose between different >>>>startup-configurations. >>>> >>>>What is your problem with Mchess7? >>> >>>Come on, Thorsten. You must be kidding. For a few days we interchanged >>>emails about how to make CSTal work on my computers and we didn't >>>succeed yet. Fernando has the same problem with Mchess 7. >>> >>>I agree with Fernando wholeheartedly. The only reason I see to stay in >>>DOS is this miserable 5% difference in speed. We all use Windows, that's >>>after all how 99% of us work and contact through the Internet. DOS >>>programs are too often a source of problems. >> >>No, DOS programs are rarely the source of the problems. These are >>usually to be found in some combination of hardware and end-user. > >If this were the reason, you wouldn't have posted two TSRs on your page >to make CST work properly on some computers. Case in point: CST not >running properly with ATI video boards. I tried with the ATI's TSR and >Univesa TSR, both downloadable from your home page as a solution for >loading CST. No use. It doesn't work either on my HP with a Chips and >Technologies video board. These video problems wouldn't happen with a >Windows program. What we do, is what everybody does. We write the stuff in C, and then compile it. The C compiler takes care of the graphics hardware. In our case we use Watcom for DOS. Ie, the hardware interfacing is not our problem (blunt enough Enrique ?) If hardware manufacturors bring out hardware and cards that cause Watcom graphics routines to fail, then what do you want me to do ? If they bring out new cards that then get installed by the PC manufacturor in all their glory that then won't support DOS programs and their drivers what do you want me to do ? Most recent example are the dual-page mode cards. very fast for shifting graphics data around, expecially when in dual page mode So they ship pre-installed into dual page mode. Except dual page mode totally foxes the C compiler routines - result mouse trails or crash or whatever. Now there's a little program to switch the card back to single page mode - solves the problem - but where is this program ? does the average user even know about it, or about page modes ? etc. etc. Maybe, Enrique, you'll just have to accept that you're one of the 5% or so who are just not going to get the DOS one working ? We're doing the Win95 version right now. Q2 release, allegedly. Chris > >Enrique > >>Chris Whittington >> >>> >>>Enrique
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