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From: rcrane@Octa4.net.au                               30-Oct-99 15:30:24
  To: All                                               30-Oct-99 14:31:18
Subj: Re: VOODOO 3 2000 problems with beta 9

From: rcrane@Octa4.net.au (Richard A Crane)

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:23:00, filippo sartori <fisa@jet.uk> 
wrote:

[snip]
> How can I reset everything so that I can get it to work?
> Any idea to what to do next?
> 
> Regards
> Filippo Sartori
> 
ALWAYS reset to VGA before changing video drivers as they 
can do all sorts of weird things to your system.
The safe solution is to change cards again restore to the 
backup you took before installing SDD - then RESET to VGA , 
change cards and install SDD

Richard A Crane
Barrister & Solicitor
slightly altered email (anti-spamming) rcrane AT 
octa4.net.au 
OR rcrane AT attglobal.net

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From: nospam@nospam.com                                 29-Oct-99 15:49:18
  To: All                                               31-Oct-99 05:35:14
Subj: Re: Netscape cache messing up

From: nospam@nospam.com

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:22:51, "Jeffrey S. Kobal" 
<murdoctor@ausNOSPAMtin.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> lifedata@xxvol.com wrote:
> 
> > Netscape 4.61:  The cache has started messing up in general just recently. 
 I've
> > cleared out both memory cache and disk cache, turned them off etc., but I
still
> > keep seeing web pages re-download over and over.
> 
> Try turning the caching back ON.
>
> Jeffrey S. Kobal
> IBM Corporation
> 
I'll take the opportunity to thank you and the IBM team for 
communicator 4.61. I'm not completely happy with it (drag and drop 
still works better with 2.02, which is also more stable), but it's a 
big leap forward from 4.04 and caching works *much* better than in 
2.02!:-) 

-
Magnus Olsson

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
 - Plato

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From: fisa@jet.uk                                       29-Oct-99 15:23:00
  To: All                                               31-Oct-99 05:35:14
Subj: VOODOO 3 2000 problems with beta 9

From: filippo sartori <fisa@jet.uk>

HI
I got myself a voodoo 3 2000 board
I had an s3 trio card before.
So I installed successfully SDD on the system with the trio running
set the system at 1024x768 16K colours (maybe 256?) and that was
ok .
I then swapped cards and the system booted up ok on the same
video resolution.
After that I changed to 1600x(is it 1200?) 32 bit colour and rebooted.
At boot up I got trap at $SINGLEQ and system frozen in text mode.
It happened at the time when the system normally cahnges to
graphics mode.

I then switched to VGA: ok.
Installed SDD again: ok.
rebooted and again trap on SINGLEQ?
It looks like that whatever setting was making the first setup
fail is still in place.
How can I reset everything so that I can get it to work?
Any idea to what to do next?

Regards
Filippo Sartori



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From: stefanj@gte.net                                   31-Oct-99 02:18:02
  To: All                                               31-Oct-99 06:30:20
Subj: MAMERun beta 2

From: stefanj@gte.net (Jason Stefanovich)

I just uploaded beta 2 my OS/2 PM frontend MAMERun for
the DOS version of MAME to Hobbes, you can
also get it at my home directory.

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mrunb2.zip
http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/mrunb2.zip

This is the ONLY frontend for DOS MAME under OS/2.

Whats New:
* Fixed bug with the "Flip Y" button
* Fixed clipping and scaling problem with MAMERun bitmap
* Removed the need for an external bitmap
* Removed the maximize button from all windows
* Removed the minimize button from modal windows
* Added Norm Ross's STARTD program
* Customized the DOS environment to allow the running of large ROMs
and enhance emulation speed


What is it:
MAMERun is a FREEWARE OS/2 PM frontend for the DOS version of MAME
(Multi. Arcade Machine Emulator).  A Frontend is a program that
makes it easier for the user to interface with their application,
which usually has a command line interface.  MAME is a very popular
emulator that allows you to run thousands of classic arcade
games on your PC (if you own the ROMs).  You can find the MAME
homepage at http://mame.retrogames.com/.  The Official
(and very good) OS/2 PM port of MAME was done by
Marty Amodeo and is at http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com/.

Requirements:
OS/2
MAME for DOS (I used version .36 beta 7)
DOS Support installed
RexxUtil
joystick device driver (for joystick support, download from hobbes or
DDPAK)
ROMs (DO NOT ASK ME FOR, OR WHERE TO GET ROMS!!)

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From: fisa@jet.uk                                       01-Nov-99 13:30:27
  To: All                                               01-Nov-99 14:27:19
Subj: Re: VOODOO 3 2000 problems with beta 9

From: filippo sartori <fisa@jet.uk>

 Hi!
I managed to go through the problem.
It actually turned out that the SDD could not do 24 bit true color
modes..
So I put back the old S3 card 2 meg of ram with SDD still installed and
I
got it to work at 1600x1200x256 !!! which I never had the chance to try.

Then I set up for 1024x768x65K and switched to the VOODOO 2000 and that
worked. Finally I risked again 1600x1200x65K and that was successfull.
Lately I tried gatest with 24 and 32 bit modes and I found that they did
not work!

Filippo


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From: sbowring+nospam@mpc-data.co.uk                    02-Nov-99 17:52:04
  To: All                                               02-Nov-99 16:47:17
Subj: Re: acrobat java on w98 vs warp

From: "Simon Bowring" <sbowring+nospam@mpc-data.co.uk>

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:18:27 -0600, gjohn wrote:

>I just installed acrobatjava on my w98 machine, and it is faster than
>acrobatv3 on warp4 (fp12). I suspect that adobe pays more attention to
>polishing their products for the win environment.

I most benchmarks OS/2's Java runs very fast, until you start using
GUI stuff (AWT or swing), when it is slow!

Window's Graphics runs much faster than OS/2's, and since Acrobat is mainly
about graphics this may the reason.

Java (all platforms) is highly memory hungry - for "best" results,
both systems should have a similar (large) amount of *available*
memory (many 10s of Mb for big Java progs).

Regards

Simon Bowring




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From: andy@schiller.big.ac.at                           05-Nov-99 09:32:02
  To: All                                               05-Nov-99 05:13:04
Subj: Re: Netscape cache messing up

From: andy <andy@schiller.big.ac.at>

> I'll take the opportunity to thank you and the IBM team for
> communicator 4.61. I'm not completely happy with it (drag and drop
> still works better with 2.02, which is also more stable), but it's a
> big leap forward from 4.04 and caching works *much* better than in
> 2.02!:-)

The only stability problem I've got (up to now) is that the messenger crashes
every
first time I start it

greetings
                Andreas

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