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Subject: Re: REBEL CENTURY and HARD DRIVES

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 06:58:05 11/08/99

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On November 07, 1999 at 15:01:01, Howard Exner wrote:

>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.

Hello Howard,
I have tried all 3 of your "Fixes" and none of them work for me.  Any more
ideas?  I would love to solve this problem.  I have a PII-333 with 160 meg RAM.
(HP 8360 Pavillion).
Jim Walker



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