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From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
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Subject: Re: T7G Technical FAQ version 1.07 (Repost)
Date: 15 Apr 1994 23:53:30 GMT
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In a previous article, lchiu@crl.com (Laurence Chiu) says:

>:If you have a S3 chip video card....well...you might be in
>:trouble.  Some of the S3 chips aren't very good accelerators.
>
>As a point of reference I ran this game under my default config.sys
>etc. on an Orchid F1280+ VLB (S3-805). I was using a Texel DM3024
>connected to a PAS16. The F1280+ has VESA in ROM. It ran okay
>although the motion scenes were a little bit jerky, something I
>could not attribute to either the card or the CDROM drive (probably
>the card).

Believe me, it had to be the card.  I have a Genoa 8500 non-local bus
cirrus logic 5424 accelerator and my video was near perfect.  I also
had a Mitsumi single-spin, so I would bet my money on the card.
later on in the FAQ, I do mention that the newer S3 are much better.
However, for the price of a lot of these S3 chip cards, you could buy
a better one for the same price or a little more.

>:9) If you are using QEMM, do NOT use stealth!  In fact, NEVER use
>:stealth!  Hopefully, you won't need the whopping 3k of extra UMB!
>:Also, if you are still using QEMM 6 (NOT VERSION 7!), exclude
>:C000-C7FF since there was a bug with VESA bios'.
>
>I had no problems with Stealth enabled. I also setup my AMI BIOS to
>copy the video BIOS to RAM. That seemed to help a bit.
>However I can't report on later problems since I got bored with the
>game and returned it to my friend.

You know, I bet stealth really doesn't cause any problems with this game.
This game is one of the most easy goin' game to deal with as far as
being persnikity with other TSR's and such... (with the exception of
smart drive :-)

So you will ask, "then why say that?"  Well, Stealth can work radically
different on some motherboards then what you are used to.  On my
MB, it gives me no extra ram whatsoever.  Some BIOS' allow you to get more.
Some machines crash outright and others get shakey.  It's hard to tell
from here.  Besides, if you called up Quarterdeck, that would be one
of the FIRST questions the would ask you!
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