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- > Bengt Kayser
- >
- was recently asked by a few people to post a summary of the things that
- need to be done to get Executor 1.99l to work under OS/2 Warp.
- There have been a few conflicting reports here and there by myself and others
- so it appears that the bug may be system dependent [ ? ]
-
- What I have decided to do is to post all the settings for my
- Executor Session. Many, in fact MOST, of these settings should not be
- necessary, but since I am not able to reproduce the error of the mouse
- not working on but one device driver, I cannot test this.
-
- here are the settings for a Full Screen MDOS session that loads [ for me ]
- executor.bat which contains all my command line switches and the VESA
- TSR if you need it etc...
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARING None
- DOS_BREAK ON
- DOS_FILES 40
- DOS_HIGH ON
- DOS_SHELL C:\os2\mdos\command.com C:\os2\mdos
- DOS_UMB ON
- DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT 16
- DPMI_NETWORK_SIZE 8
- HW_ROM_TO_RAM ON
- HW_TIMER ON
- INT_DURING_IO ON
- VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION OFF
- VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION ON [ your choice ]
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- EMS memory must also be set, because that's where executor gets its
- DPMI, but I was being hopeful with DPMI_MEM...8-)
-
- For most I have talked to, the solution appears to not need any of these
- settings changes. Rather, one only needs to add \OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
- to the OS/2 config.sys file and reboot. This should technically
- be already in your config.sys, along with several other Vdrivers.
- One user did have VMOUSE but also needed \OS2\MDOS\MOUSE.COM in his
- autoexec.bat. This is normally only necessary for disk image boots [ VMB ]
- and not MDOS sessions [ VDM ].
-
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- So... I believe the fix can be summed up by taking these steps:
-
- Step 1: If this is a Microsoft mouse, I urge you to throw it away.
- You paid too much for a mouse that is a piece of trash, albeit a very
- ergonomic piece of trash. You are insulting your system. 8-)
-
- Step 2: OK.. now that you've shelled out $10 for a mouse that works better than
- the smooth wonder of a rodent you just pitched, on to step two....
-
- Make sure your OS/2 config.sys file contains the line:
- [ insert your drive letter of course ]
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
-
- and reboot your computer...
-
- Step 3: If that didn't work, determine what kind of DOS sesison you are using.
-
- If you are running this through a VMB [ disk image ] make sure that
- \OS2\MDOS\MOUSE.COM is loaded. You should even be able to use your own
- mouse driver through the VMB.
-
- If you are certian that you are running a VDM [ MDOS session ] try
- running MOUSE.COM before you start Executor.
- [ This conflict may be hardware dependent see below ]
-
- Step 4: Compare your session settings with those above.
- Possible conflicts [ although I am just guessing ]
- are:
- HW_TIMER is not set to ON
- INT_DURING_IO is not ON
- etc...
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- ** If anyone is an OS/2 Warp user and is trying to run Executor on it, please
- send me your system specs, DOS session settings, whether or not you need
- mouse.com, and if you have had the problem at all. I'd like to compile a
- "final report" on this. Also include your mouse type.
- I am currently hypothesising that the usage of mouse.com is dependent on
- whether your mouse if COM port based, or bus based, or some other adapter
- perhaps.
-
- ** I am also curious to find out how well E/D runs in a window for those
- of you who can achieve higher resolutions...
-
- Thanks to everyone,
-
- Charles "Free copy of E/D 2.0?? Do you mean it??" Hunter ;)
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