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From: teexpjs@ioe.lon.ac.uk (PHILIP SMITH)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SKYGLOB2 freezes my PC
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.154524.25189@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:45:24 GMT
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In <4344@gmdzi.gmd.de> icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking) writes:

>I downloaded <MSDOS.EDUCATION>SKYGLOB2.ZIP from the SIMTEL mirror site
>wuarchive.wustl.edu. After successfully unpacking each attempt to run
>SKYGLOBE made it neccessary to re-boot.

>The configuration is: Siemens PCD-4T (80486) with DOS 4.01, VGA with
>cirrus chipset with 256k.

>Anyone else with the same problem? Any solution?
>-- 
>Werner Icking          icking@gmdzi.gmd.de          (+49 2241) 14-2443
>Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH (GMD)
>Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRGermany
>                                  "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod."


I've got a 386 with an Orchid Prodesigner II video card and skyglobe2 crashes
when I press a key but only using the VGA option so I use the EGA option.
Is it just certain video cards?

Philip Smith, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, U.K.  pjs1@uk.ac.ucl.mssl