Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 15:14:08 10/27/00
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On October 27, 2000 at 14:55:05, Howard Exner wrote: >Regarding the locking up in the Dos box. Previous Rebel's locked up in the >windows dos box for me also. I was expecting the odd lockup, or just an >unexpected closing of the program under windows. This time around not one >shutdown after over 100 hours of play (mostly auto testing in engine vs engine). >I use win98se. > >Dos mode works with the limitation of 60 MB hash, even on a 128MB or more >system. Don't know why this is though. The usual 3% speed up in dos is still >there. Your suggestion long ago of disabling the joystick was usefull >under windows mode. With joystick enabled it is about 5% faster under dos than >the dos box. I exclusively played Rebel under Dos in the past, except just for >light sessions. Now I just use the windows dos box. Hi! Exclude the mouse and you have another 1-2% speedup, exclude the CD and you have another 3-5% speedup.(I guess you already have exclude it) Bertil
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