Author: Slater Wold
Date: 01:59:13 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 03:11:10, Ed Schröder wrote: >On October 26, 2001 at 19:20:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I all: >>A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those >>that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all >>people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word. >>Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one >>about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it: >>Pros: >>It has not hang at all >>It has not frozen until now >>No blue screen >>My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three >>times faster. >>Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where >>I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before? >>Faster loading of all programs, including itself. >>Far prettier interface. >>Cons: >>It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face, >>it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now... >>Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to >>my chagrin as it is one of my favourites. >>Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that >>is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of >>malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better. >>Now, say something... >>Fernando > > >Fernando, > >Please send an email to info@rebel.nl with a description what goes wrong. >While XP's kernel more or less is Windows 2000 we have noticed that a too >small swap-file (the virtual memory) may cause a problem at times. So my >hint would be to increase the size of the swap-file. Windows works best >if you make the swap-file 2 x the available memory. So if you have 256 Mb >in your PC make the swap-file 512 Mb. > >When it still does not work sue Bill or less stressy let me know and we >do his job in the form of a patch. > >Ed No disrespect, but Bill isn't the one who has the problem with updating his software. No disrespect again, but DOS has been "officially" dead for about 8 years now, and you still have *new* versions of Century running exclusivly in DOS. From what I do know about XP, it's going to be no easy task to get Century to run "happily" with XP. Perhaps MS is doing us all a favor killing DOS. Perhaps one day you might actually be forced to write a Windows GUI for it! Slate
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