Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Objetris Message-ID: <7muJL1w162w@cybrspc> Date: 29 Jun 90 22:50:41 GMT References: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 19 kaldis@traffic.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) writes: > In article cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) w > > > Same here on my 286. I think a ^A is printed to the screen, and then... > > lockup so tight, I have to punch the BRB (Big Red Button). > > The program works fine for me. Perhaps you have the wrong screen? (I > think it needs at least an EGA). The reason you have to hit the "Big > Red Button" is that the program locks up while interrupts are > disabled. That makes sense. I have an EGA card, but run a CGA monitor. Perhaps that's the conflict. -- Roy M. Silvernail | 'I don't see why you people | Opinions found now available at: | seem to think this is magic... | herein are mine, cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | Its just this little chromium | but you can rent (cyberspace... be here!)| switch here...[click]' | them.