Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 10:07:52 12/04/97
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On December 04, 1997 at 10:34:38, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On December 04, 1997 at 06:23:17, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On December 03, 1997 at 22:45:38, Keith Ian Price wrote: >> >>>On December 03, 1997 at 19:47:04, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>> >>>>On December 03, 1997 at 18:49:16, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>> >>>>>>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. >>>>> >>>>>As I said Enrique, as long as you bypass your config.sys/autoexec.bat >>>>>instead of loading them after booting, the new devices cannot be loaded >>>>>and cannot CHANGE the wrong default setting in your video-card-bios. >>>> >>>>This is nonsense. The TSR from ATI can be loaded at any moment. Same for >>>>Univesa. They simply do not work. >>>> >>>>>Also ATI's TSR is a bugfix because THEIR product has problems with the >>>>>VESA mode. >>>> >>>>Remember I also have a problem with a Chips and Technologies video card. >>>>Too many problems overall. >>>> >>>>>Otherwise they would not have invented it ! >>>> >>>>I don't care about whose fault it is, video card manufacturers, dubious >>>>VESA standards or programs that adhere to VESA. And this is Fernando's >>>>point, if I am not mistaken. I get a program and I want to test it and >>>>to use it. As simple as that. None (NONE) of my Windows programs give me >>>>this kind of compatibility problems. Some are full of bugs, for example >>>>last year Power Chess was crashing every other minute. And this may be >>>>expected from badly written programs. But we are talking about something >>>>else: the user-friendliness (lack of) of DOS programs. >>>> >>>>Enrique >>> >>>I think you will be able to use CSTal on your ATI card if you run the >>>vesa driver with the "s" switch. The problem is the dual page mode, and >>>CSTal needs a single page mode. So if you have a Rage 3d card, the vesa >>>bios extensions should be loaded with "m64vbe s" on the command line. If >>>you have an older card, you should check the vesa bios instructions for >>>the switch to use single page mode. There should be one. >>> >>>Hope this helps, >> >>It did help. Thanks a lot. With the "s" switch the mouse is not erasing >>the screen anymore. >> >>But... now CST is crashing so badly that I have to cold reset the >>computer. So, next step in this Sherlock Holmes process. Meanwhile, I >>fully sympathize with Fernando's frustration. I checked out the scenario you described by email (switch to large (F2) screen, and then import a database. It worked for me, but that's probably not very helpful. Maybe one of four things: 1. the IMPORT feature is a game import. It was written to try and be clever; it can load several other saved game formats, I forget which, but most of them, I think; and, of course, it can load straight PGN. But it is NOT a multiple game importer, it won't grab loads of consecutive PGN game data streams, and bung them in a database. Possibly if you were trying to load masses of stuff at once, there could have been a memory problem ? 2. Just an out of memory problem, anyway ? 3. Some corruption elsewhere from incorrect or strange setup, that just happened to manifets itself here ? 4. If you were using the Paris download, there is a crash bug that manifests very rarely, maybe once in four autoplayer games at most ... ? Chris >> >>Enrique >> > >If you are running Win95 and have a Pentium, I boot the computer and >press the F8 key when "Starting Windows 95" appears. Then I select >6--Command prompt only. You should be sure to load the CD-ROM driver (so >as to be able to access the large book) and the mouse only. This should >work. If you have a K6, I think it should work also. I don't know with >Cyrix or Centaur. If you are attempting to use autoplay, make sure that >the com port selected in auto232.bat is not the one the mouse is >attached to, as this will lock it up fast, with no message. > >kp
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