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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: No <lotsa stuff> after SP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.214550.9826@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec20.030238.5983@cs.brown.edu> <1hb6dqINN789@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:45:50 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1hb6dqINN789@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu> ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic) writes:
- >wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
- >
- >-After I applied the Service Pak, My DOS games either die after
- >-start or there is no animation. What's wrong with the new
- >-DOS VDM? Has anyone experienced the same? Thanks!
- >
- > I also noticed that I am unable to run many DOS graphics-based apps
- >(some of them games), on the workplace shell anymore (as the 'video mode
- >is not supported') using the Tseng drivers. Although, once the game is in
- >motion, I can often bring the session back into a window and have it
- >looking just fine (being that I have a 24-bit card). And what IS it with
- >the speed of the new graphics engine??? Hmmmm....
- >
- > More general, I'm finding my system hanging often on a hard drive access
- >that never returns (ie, drive is selected, no activity). I STILL have to
- >use the old OS/2 LA drivers get make the hard drives usable.
- >
- > SBOS2 no longer functions properly after SP, and the digital clock is
- >STILL broken (and, yes, you still can't change the font).
- >
- > And finally, most DOS applications that use the 'load EXE' call to load
- >other exectables STILL doesn't work (some programs have a special loader
- >that run another executable). (WOW! nice upgrade).
- >
- > Hmmmm, can't wait to see what is (not) fixed in 2.1 . Grrrr.....
- >
- Frankly, although I've heard a lot of complaints about the SP, it worked
- wonders for me. I had an arms length long list of complaints about GA,
- and the SP fixed all but two. One of those I suspect is a bug in the
- 16-bit Trident drivers, which I suppose I ought to replace now that the
- 32-bit are available. So at any rate, the SP does work well on some
- systems.
-
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-