Author: Howard Exner
Date: 09:37:17 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 09:58:05, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 07, 1999 at 15:01:01, Howard Exner wrote: > >>>>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 You are referring to the ones posted on Rebel's message board. Only one of them is a fix for machines with 64 MB ram that do not run while himem.sys is loaded. The other two are just pif files for starting Rebel using icons on the desktop. For example the one pif file is identical to Starting Rebel with the F8 boot idea, while the other one is for those lucky folks that never had a problem running Rebel with himem.sys. Unfortunately that is neither you or me. Does Rebel run on that machine with the F8 bootup idea? If so then the one option should also work - ie: the option that boots rebel as if you where using the F8 idea. That one should work for everyone since it simply automatically reboots your machine in safe mode, then launches Rebel. Describe what happens with that one here or through email if you like. I'm positive we can get that one working (unless the F8 method does not work for you). That may lead to getting the himem.sys/smartdrv one working - that is the one I believe you really wanted to get working from reading your posts on the Rebel message board. Another suggestion is for you to email me the directory name for your operating system(Win95, windows, windows98 ...) as well as the directory where your mouse.exe file is (usually c:\mouse). I can then create this icon file (pif) and email it back to you. The idea for the himem.sys/smartdrv "fix" is really an old method of starting certain dos programs using the int15 parameter. Many dos programs, not just Rebel, require within dos the int15 parameter for managing memory.
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