Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: HELP WITH REBEL ASSU From: armando.galindo%mandic@ibase.br (Armando Galindo) Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ax!mandic!armando.galindo Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <1994Mar8.172630.27855@tvnews.tv.tek.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 01:29:00 -0300 Organization: MANDIC BBS Sao Paulo/Brazil +55 11 816-3911 Lines: 50 quoting Bobe@soul.tv.tek.com to B >B >Message-ID: <1994Mar8.172630.27855@tvnews.tv.tek.com> B >Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom B >Organization: Tektronix TV Products B > B >In article ee1jad@midge.bath.ac.uk (J A Dickie) B >writes: B > B >>Hi there. B >> B >>I also had a problem with my nice new 486DX2 66 recently in trying to B >>get RA working. The problem I had was with the BIOS. I have AMI BIOS B >>dated 08/08/93 (I think), there is a setting somewhere called 'TURBO B >>FUNCTION SETTING' or something like that. If set to ENABLED it caused B >>any piece of software that uses DOS4GW.EXE to crash. B >> B >>Jim@Midge B > B >The CDROM contains a version of DOS4GW.EXE (a Rational Systems protected B >mode DOS extender) that has been characterised by some as "somewhat B >unstable". The 1.4 patch file from LucasArts (avail by BBS or CI$, B >"go gamapub") includes a previous version of DOS4GW.EXE (version 1.8 is B >the one you want) that is more reliable. B > B >I have also seen the same DOS extender bundled with the name DOS4G.exe B >(not DOS4GW.exe). I hope this helps... B > B >Bob Elkind, bobe@tv.tv.tek.com Tektronix TV Products B > Wanna know something strange? I used to play RA with a NEC 3XE multispin drive: the sound was terrible and the game stopped once in a while. Now I play RA on a Panasonic 562B (less than half the NECs price) and everything is ok!!! My computer has an AMI Bios dated 1992. Best, Armando. 72322,3153 CompuServe armando.galindo%mandic@ibase.br --- * UniQWK #1025* Programmers do it in loops.