Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 13:57:42 11/05/99
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All Rebel's 9 and up have been doing similar thing on each move, making repsonse time during the move switch (when you need responsevnes the most) sluggish, especially problematic in blitz. Since to maximize memory for Rebel, one might not use smartdrv.exe (disk cache program), this becomes much more noticable than with other programs doing frequent disk writes. But loading smartdrv.exe (via your config.sys) you can reduce somewhat the appearance of this behaviour. If RC has option to configure (drive) where its continuously updated files are, one could specify that those go onto RAM disk, but that again would take memory from Rebel for the rma disk driver and the ram disk. That's why I never used Rebel 9 after the initial try uncovered this annoyance, and went back to Rebel 8. It would be much better, if Ed is reading here, and he either knows a command line option to turn this constant disk read/write (for each move) off, or if he can add a patch or a minor upgrade at some point which handles it in a nicer way. Short of that, if he could tell us the file names being read/written, one could write a small TSR which intercepts these DOS calls and throws away the write buffer and tells Rebel that writing went Ok (or gives a dummy read buffer on reads). Short of knowing these files, one would need and XRAY program which logs all DOS calls in a file, then one can apply the previous solution. I would prefer the minor RC upgrade option, which would also add some higher resolution bitmaps for the board & pieces (VESA specs supports such resolutions).
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