Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 01:08:59 10/27/00
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On October 27, 2000 at 03:49:34, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >Older versions of Rebel used software protection which was hard-coded to >FAT12/16 DOS file system. That made them incompatible with other file systems, >in particular the NTFS. Their DOS extender was also very fragile and prone to >locking up in Win95/98 DOS Box. The hash table sizes were also quite limited >under Win95/98 DOS Box (well below the table sizes for native Win32 CB based >programs on the same system). To work-around that problem, one had to go to >stand-alone DOS mode, having to wait for 2 slow reboots (and lose for the >duration, among others, the internet access) to get in, play a game (with large >hash) and get out. > >However I liked the Rebel's playing style and functionality, it was too much >trouble to use in a busy daily schedule (especially after being spoiled with >nice CB UI based programs). > >Does the new Rebel Century 3 on Rebel 11 distribution work under Windows NT/2000 >and is it able to use "large" (say, a 64Mb tables on a plain 128Mb Win2k) hash >tables in NT Dos Box? Or does it require DOS 6.2 (or similar) boot floppy along >with existence of DOS partition on hard disk to operate at all on NT (with NTFS) >machine or to use large hash tables? I have no problems using Century 3 under Windows 2000 with NTFS. On my 256MB RAM machines, I can allocate up to 200MB for hashtables. The only limitation I found is that I can't autoplay in W2000, W98, W98SE or ME in a DOS box. For this I must boot in pure DOS, without loading himem.sys. Aside from this, no problems at all. Enrique
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