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Subject: Re: REBEL CENTURY and HARD DRIVES

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 02:29:09 11/07/99

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On November 06, 1999 at 22:08:51, Howard Exner wrote:

>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.

 Hallo!

Thank you for the tip!

Bertil SSDF



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