Author: Howard Exner
Date: 12:01:01 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: >> >>>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 But that message "program aborted,please reinstall" is covered in the Rebel FAQ. During install some machines need the "fix.zip" file to remedy this. That is unrelated to himem.sys. For some machines now there is also a work around for the himem.sys being incompatible with Rebel in Dos mode.(posted earlier here and in Ed's message board). This work around too may be machine dependent. On my machine I can now use himem.sys within dos where as previously it refused to work. The advantage is that the hard disk is as quiet as a church mouse since Smartdrv can be loaded.
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