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- This is an extensive report that covers the following aspects of 1.99L
- -Browser ERRORS (too many)
- -Browser suggestions
- -Windows and DPMI report
- -Apps errors
- -Apps that finally WORKS PERFECTLY
- -Others
-
- All the test have been reproduced several times in two different machines.
- thought the reports (with executor output data) are only from A.
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- Machine A Machine B
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- 486 DX2 66 8MB RAM (72 pins) 486 DX2 66 8MB RAM (32 pins)
- S3 1MByte in PCI bus S3 1Mbyte in VL-BUS
- SCSI Controller NCR in PCI bus. Multi IO/IDE in VL-BUS
- SCSI HD 1GB Fujitsu IDE HD 512 MB Maxtor
- Sony CDU 33A
- Sound Card, Streamer, Disk 1.44
- Windows 3.11
- Ms-DOS 6.20
- Cache used: Smartdrive
-
- Sorry for the languaje but English is not my native one.
- I hope it help! Keep it up the good work guys!!
-
- Emilio Moreno
- isc@diana.cps.unizar.es
-
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- Browse Errors:
- ==============
-
- -When using exuser.hfv the browser dont remeber we were using this volume
- and we have to open it from the hot band again and again and again...
-
- -While copying a diskete to exuser.hvf using go, icon by icon, more than (10)
- the brower overwrited all i have in the HD and only show the news icons.
- HFS_XR shows only the new icons too (Only reproduced twice and without cache)
-
- -Using HFS_XR (or what ever you name it) under browser make the sistem
- very unstable (normaly hanged).
-
- - When moving a folder to another in the same Hard DisK, it hangs
- (CRL-INTERR escapes) for example if I have
- GAMES
- ARCADE
- MAELSTROM DEMO
- and try to move MAELSTRON DEMO to GAMES, the cursor converts to a down
- arrow while i move on the same HD folder and change to square-dot cursor
- in others HD folders! Then if i release on games folder it says PBcat
- error and hangs when I say Abort. (Continue show the error again)
-
- -When creating a folder or moving an icon inside a folder the old
- icon remains there till you reopen the drive.
-
- - When I try to delete anything it shows error window, but it deletes the
- program!
-
- -If I try to open a doc by clicking on it, and having the aplication that
- created it not on the same folder it hangs and when i restart browser, i
- have lost the icon (the W icon, e.g.) of the document and find the
- normal icon of a doc. (with or without disk cache) (sometimes all the
- docs from the same app lost their icons, trying to load only one)
-
- -The same things happens to apps recently copied to Hfv. If I copy
- one, execute then and it hangs, when i restart executor, the app is
- not executable. (With or without disk cache)
-
- -If you press CTRL-ALT and the left button of the mouse, the system
- hangs and i cant access the mouse till i boot again.
-
- -When i rename a HD in the hot band (by example renaming Demos to New demos)
- the folder of this HD has the old name till i restart E/D.
-
- -When i add/remove anything to/from hot band the cursor changes to
- square-dot and it does not recover their original arrow icon till
- an app is started.
-
- -We can resize a window, but there is no resize small button on the
- right bottom corner of the window!
-
- -We cant move a folder, it always get back to the original place when
- get out from app or restart E/D. The same happens when resizing!
-
- -When Accessing to disks or CDs i have to press ALT +MAYS +2 and
- then go to menu and Check for disks instead of Check for disk directy!
-
-
- -The screen makes more jumps, it is like the screen were down and up!
-
-
- -The up and down bottons of the folders get confused if an icon is
- very near them. The incons are very near themselves too and sometimes
- its difficult to read the name!
-
- -The time between app and browser is much longer! (Exiting Word and loading
- Browser again take 20 seconds)
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- Browser suggestions
- ===================
- 1.- Desktop icons of disks
- The idea of hot band is great, but i think the Desktop icons of
- the HDs and inserted disk is a standard in MACS and easy to see!
-
- 2.-3D & Colored Icons
- The folder icon would be nicer with a 3d aspect, and the icons
- of the disks in the hot band would be nicer too with color
- and 3d aspect
-
- 3.- Please, I want the TRASH back
- Its easy, its simple and its the most characteristic of the
- Macintosh OS! Please, do it appear!
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- Windows and DPMI REPORT
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- Using CWSDPMI under QEMM 7.5 E/D seems to work fine!
- Without using CWSDPMI under QEMM 7.5 i only can allocate 1024Mb
-
- Using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine! (NOEMS)
- EXCEPT when accesing to removable drives (Disk or CD):
- ALT+MAYS+2 + Check for disk+opening the icon on the hot band
- and voil©, U have a bug!
-
- Without using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine (NOEMS)
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- Using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine! (RAM)
- Without using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine (RAM)
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- Under Windows 3.11 if you press CTRL-BRK the entire system hangs
- (no CTRL-BRK, no ALT-CRTL-DEL, only RESET button).
-
- Under Windows 3.11 when you CHANGE TASK and get back to E/D
- the screen is unreadable and the mouse clears the screen showing
- us the app where down but in other video mode!
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- The hard disk access in Windows, while saving for example a WORD
- doc is very slow.
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- APPLICATION ERRORS
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-
- ANY APP wich tries to print to TMP will hang if the directory
- c:\tmp does not exist!!!!!!! I think it wont be difficult to
- print to the executor directory, what ever it were, or let choose
- the directory!!!!
-
- ANY APP wich tries to save a file with a name longer than 32 chars get the
- error message: DISK NOT FOUND. If U rename in the browser and try
- a name longer than 32, the browser do nothing!!!!
-
- MAELSTROM does not run!!! In 1.99k it WORKED OK doing the following:
- Executor -refresh 4 and then sound volume to 0 (Thanx Cliff)
- But now, when you press P , the score line is drawn and it HANGS
- (I like it very much, plz i want play 8-) )
-
-
- SPEEDOMETER 3.21 hangs with the following:
- General Protection Fault at eip=000a6c06
- eax=b9b9b9ff ebx=00000000 ecx=b9b9b9ff edx=00fff502 esi=803f2c00 edi=00000000
- ebp=001b1ba8 esp=001b1ba4 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
- Call frame traceback EIPs:
- 0x000a6c06
- 0x000a6862
- 0x00050ee9
- 0x0004fb46
- 0x000c1b71
- 0x000bd4dc
- 0x000e8c53
- 0x000c9414
-
- RESEDIT 2.1.1 hangs with the following:
- General Protection Fault at eip=000530e7
- eax=000530b0 ebx=00167214 ecx=0066c1c8 edx=00400000 esi=c8c16600 edi=0066c20c
- ebp=001b1c18 esp=001b1b98 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
- Call frame traceback EIPs:
- 0x000530e7
- 0x000c1b71
- 0x000bd4dc
- 0x000e8c53
- 0x000c9414
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- CRICKET GRAPH 1.3.1 hangs with the following:
- General Protection Fault at eip=0045a59d
- eax=002d6514 ebx=00000000 ecx=0048f8c4 edx=0048f7b4 esi=0047320c edi=003f9e1a
- ebp=0016e2b0 esp=001b1cb4 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
- Call frame traceback EIPs:
- 0x0045a59d
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- APPLICATIONS THAT RUN OK
- =========================
- MS-WORD 5.1 has been tested during 4 hours and never get hanged
- (Well, every ten minutes...i had to restart 8-) ).
- While exporting or checking spelling is slow, but ...Nice work guys!!!!
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- OTHER ERRORS
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