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Subject: Re: REBEL CENTURY and HARD DRIVES

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 16:08:50 11/06/99

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On November 06, 1999 at 00:44:41, Howard Exner wrote:

>On November 05, 1999 at 19:38:04, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>On November 05, 1999 at 16:39:09, James A. Tackett wrote:
>>
>>>In using Rebel Century to play a game of chess I have noticed that every time I
>>>make a move Rebel Century writes something to my Hard Drive.  I find this
>>>undesirable from a noise standpoint and from the extra ware on my Hard Drive.  I
>>>have tried different configurations but the writing continues.  Whats going on
>>>and how do I stop it?
>>
>>Hallo!
>>
>>Rebel always search in the book a short time after each move, if you are able to
>>run it with smartdrv in normal dos it isn´t any problem. You don´t need to load
>>smartdrv.exe in config.sys, just write (at the Dos-prompt) smartdrv 8192 (for
>>biggest smartdrv possible) and the Rebel stops searching from the harddrive. If
>>you are short of memory try smartdrv 1012 or 2048 (1 or 2mb).
>>
>>Bertil SSDF
>
>Only the old Smartdrv.sys needed to be loaded through config.sys. Smartdrv.exe
>however does need himem.sys to be loaded first in order to run. Unfortunately
>some machines, like mine, will not run Rebel 10 and up (Rebel 9 also
>as Ratko reported) unless it is loaded with the int15 parameter, as described in
>another related post. Does your machine run Rebel Century with himem.sys loaded?

Hi!

Not since I upgraded from 32k to 64k but on my old P90 all run "Rebels" in basic
Dos-mode. Unfortunately on one of my 450´s Rebel9 and 10 don´t run at all.
Rebel8 works ok. Says something about program aborted, please reinstall, but I
have reinstalled them but nothing helps.

Regards Bertil SSDF



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