Author: Manuel Leone
Date: 17:58:58 06/04/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 20:27:20, Ed Schröder wrote: >On June 04, 2004 at 19:24:59, Manuel Leone wrote: > >>On June 04, 2004 at 17:41:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>On June 04, 2004 at 13:41:49, Manuel Leone wrote: >>> >>>>Has anyone else encountered graphics anomalies with the DOS version of Rebel 12? >>>>For example, when clicking on the Start menu, part of the top right corner of >>>>the display will disappear; certain color combinations don't work properly; and >>>>selecting the small pull-down menu results in unreadable gibberish in all of the >>>>menus. >>>> The graphics in Rebel Decade seem to work o.k., except for a similar >>>>problem with the small pull-down menu. >>>> >>>>Are these graphics errors the result of bugs in Rebel 12 DOS, or is there some >>>>incompatibility with my PC which uses the Intel 810E2 AGP chipset? Any >>>>suggestions? >>> >>> >>> Try to run REBEL with the "V" option, >>> example REBEL.EXE V >>> Kurt > >>I tried the V option, but it doesn't help. So maybe Rebel 12 doesn't fully >>support certain graphics hardware, including the Intel 810 graphics chips. Other >>DOS applications, Windows XP and Linux run without any problems on this >>hardware. > >It could be related that the hardware developers don't care about DOS >compatibility anymore. > >Ed This hardware is completely DOS compatible. In fact Rebel Decade 2.0 and 3.0 work just fine (except for the small pull-down menu, which is not that important). Maybe Rebel 12 uses graphics routines that only work on certain hardware? Other than that, it plays rather well tactically and positionally.
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