Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 02:36:30 11/07/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 04:32:54, Enrique Irazoqui 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. >> >>Regards Bertil SSDF > >In my experience, this only happens if you load himem.sys and your machine has >more than 64MB RAM. I don't have problems with Rebels if I don't load himem.sys. > >Enrique Hallo! I think I have tried almost every upstart including under Win/Dos but I always get the same message. You are right Rebel run without himem.sys with 64k but after I upgraded to 128k it don´t run at all. Bertil
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