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Article #506Re: OS/2 and Doom
From: rrw... Richard Ward
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 20:54
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 20:54
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In article <2gh9vh$5...@tribune.usask.ca> lo...@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes: >Just a couple of things. > >I'm using OS/2 2.1 on a 486/33. I have a Trident video card, and a >SoundBlaster Pro card on IRQ10. I also have a Gravis joystick. > >I start the game up, it starts playing music, shows the introduction >screen (the guy with the gun), then everything locks up. The music >stops, and no keys I press do anything. I have to press "CTRL-ESC" to >get back to the OS/2 desktop, then close the DOS session. Try setting your SBPro interupt to 7 or lower, as I remember, DOOM (and a whole bunch of other games) does not like interupts greater than 7. >- Kevin Lowey (Kevin...@USask.CA, Client Services Educational Services Team) > >Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. > - Steven Wright "I'm learning how to play the harmonica, I don't blow in it, I put it out the window of my car and drive really fast. [...] I just put a new engine in my car. I didn't take the old one out. It goes 500 miles an hour. The harmonica sounds fantastic. " - Steven Wright +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The box...you opened it. We came. It's a means to summon us - Cenobites. | | Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some, angels to | | others. ... No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering." - Pinhead | | rrw...@netcom.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rrward From: rrw...@netcom.com (Richard Ward) Subject: Re: OS/2 and Doom Message-ID: <rrwardCJ87F5.53n@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2gh9vh$5nd@tribune.usask.ca> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 20:54:38 GMT Lines: 32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit