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In article <sflin.706297253@husc10> sf...@husc10.harvard.edu (Scott Lin) writes:
>I am having trouble running Keen4 on my 286.  My setup is a 286-12Mhz
>with 1 Mb memory, EGA monitor with ATI EGA card with 256 kb ram.
>When I move Keen horizontally, the screen shakes severely.  It seems
>that the program can't update the screen fast enough when Keen is
>moving horizontally.  But there is no problem when Keen is moving
>vertically.

I get this problem too - I have an identical setup. I thought that the
Keen programmers just weren't too clever about horizontal scroll, but
you're right - the CPU probably can't keep up.

Vertical scrolling is really really easy because of the way EGA cards
are built, so it's no surprise it works smoothly. Look how many EGA
games scroll vertically instead of horizontally (say, Ballistix by
Psygnosis).

The game still rocks, and you get used to the bad scroll. At least
you can play it, unlike Ultima Underworld, Ultima 7, Wolf 3d, etc..

>Another strange thing is that in the opening screen, it says that it finds
>about 340 kb of standard memory.  But I've loaded Dos 5 high and when I
>run mem at the dos prompt, it says that I have 583 kb available.  Is there
>something screwy going on here?

I think it's reporting the amount of memory left after it has loaded
itself. This thing is a memory hog!
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