Author: Howard Exner
Date: 19:08:51 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 19:08:50, Bertil Eklund wrote: >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. That reinstall message is the same as what I got. There is a fix for that on the Rebel site. I think GambiSoft also carries that fix.
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