Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 15:32:38 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 13:36:16, F. Huber wrote:
>On April 26, 2005 at 00:26:25, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:
>
>>
>> Very good site.
>>
>> There is a "Gandalf 1" there. Do you know how to run it?
>>
>> Telmo
>
>Hi Telmo,
>
>I´ve just downloaded and tried this Gandalf - as usual for an old program
>written in TurboPascal it gives a "Runtime error 200"!
>The reason is that the computers nowadays are too fast, because there´s
>a timer routine in the TurboPascal-unit ´Crt´ which crashes on modern CPUs.
>
>But every problem has a solution: :-)
>I have a small program that patches exactly those TurboPascal programs to run
>also on faster CPUs without this runtime error -
>I´ve just applied it to this Gandalf program and it works fine here!
>
>So if you are really interested in this old DOS program, I could send you
>my patched version by email ...
>
>Regards,
>Franz.
Sure I´m interested. Thanks, Franz. Send your patched version to telmo_icc {at}
hotmail.com.
Kindest regards
Telmo
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