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Received: from wasp.cec.wustl.edu (wasp.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.248.27]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA23893 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:30:16 -0800 Received: by wasp.cec.wustl.edu (5.x/ECL-A1.27) id AA03598; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:30:14 -0600 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:30:13 -0600 (CST) From: Andrew Robert Ellsworth <are1@cec.wustl.edu> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Questions re: 1.99p6 Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951202150159.3519C-100000@wasp.cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I just picked up 1.99p6 the other day, and decided to try and run the Marathon 2 16-bit demo, since I couldn't seem to find the original Marathon demo around anywhere. I ran in to a couple of problems. First of all, when I open up Stuffit Expander, and try to alter the preferences, it crashes with executor: Fatal error. encountered unknown, unimplemented trap `ABC9'. And gives me the "restart" button. When I hit the restart button, it puts me back to the browser (as it should). So I finally just said "screw it" and let the expander unstuff the demo to the default location (which turned out to be exactly where I wanted it), and tried to run the demo. When I do so, I get: Please be sure the files "Map", "Shapes", and "Sounds" are in the same folder as the "Marathon" application and try again. ID = -35 Of course, I wouldn't be posting this error if it wasn't an error; all of the requested files are there. I made sure that the FILES setting in my CONFIG.SYS was set sufficiently high; it's currently set to 80. I'm also running with an applzone of 8M. Has anyone else had any success with getting this demo to run? P.S. The low-memory warning in executor which suggests that you use a larger -applzone setting for a program doesn't reflect the new -applzone syntax. For example, executor suggested that I try an -applzone of 8000 when running the M2 demo above, because the demo requested a lot of memory. Yet with the new syntax, it would be 8M rather than 8000. Just a little nit-pick there. P.P.S. When running in 50-line-mode under DOS (using "mode ,50") the text mode isn't correctly restored when exiting E/D. Instead it's 50 lines of the upper-half of the 25-line font. Another nit-pick. I'd appreciate any feedback on any of the above (and keep up the good work, ARDI). Thanks. Andy Ellsworth | "...The wind was not the beginning. There are are1@cec.wustl.edu | neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of Assistant Admin, wuarchive | the Wheel of Time. But it was _a_ beginning..." http://cec.wustl.edu/~are1 | --The Wheel of Time saga, Robert Jordan