Author: Efrén Navarro
Date: 22:17:03 05/31/04
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Ed, I frankly don't care much for "unfriendliness" in the procedure because I care much more for Rebel. However, Win2K does not seem friendly to Rebel. I wouldn't let me format a floppy with the system option and, although it has the F8 option, and you can enter to a screen with the command prompt, Win2K still loads, so you still use the same DOS emulator and, as you might expect, produces the same error. I read the other poster reply to your message and it looks interesting. If he finds the correct Hotfix to uninstall I will try to find out what it "corrects" to evaluete its uninstallation. That would be very helpful to all of us Rebel fans with Win2K. Again (and will be lots of agains), thanks for your time and effort to help me. Efrén Navarro On May 31, 2004 at 04:29:17, Ed Schröder wrote: > >There was an ugly solution at the time the first buggy Windows 95 versions >entered the market. It is VERY user unfriendly but it worked every time. I >forgot if the trick works on W2000 or not, but you could try. Here is a >copy&paste from the README file of an older Rebel. > > Windows 95/98 (F8 trick) > ------------------------ > > - Start / Restart your computer. > - Press F8 as soon as "Starting Windows 95/98" appears. > - Select MSDOS SAFE mode from the menu. > - Load your mouse driver (MOUSE.COM, LH MOUSE etc.) > - Start the program with REBEL.EXE from the installed directory. > - You have started REBEL with the strongest settings. > > We do not advice this trick since it is very user unfriendly. > > However REBEL will run 3-5% faster because the lack of > Windows. > >=========== > >There is a second trick even more ugly, that is to create a "boot-disk". By head >do the following steps: > >1) Format a floppy disk using FORMAT A: /S > >2) Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS file with the necessary files on the >floppy. > >3) Restart your PC with the boot disk inside. > >Contents AUTOEXEC.BAT > >@ECHO OFF >PROMPT $P$G >PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\DOS; >LOADHIGH DOSKEY >LOADHIGH MOUSE > >Contents CONFIG.SYS > >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\setver.exe >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI /FRAME=E000 >DOS=HIGH,UMB >files = 50 > >=========== > >These 2 solutions completely bypass Windows, if they don't work trash Rebel 12 >for DOS. > >Good luck, > >Ed
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