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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: Re: S.O.S--Flipper and the AMI BIOS
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Date: 4 Jun 91 02:00:26 GMT
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To: talmy@rand.org (Shel Talmy)

 ST> As the subject header says, I have the Flipper speech program
 ST> running on a 386 with a AMI bios, and the combination of the two
 ST> evidently conflict, so that when I try to use an extended
 ST> keyboard with the 386, it locks up the machine.

Shel,
    I wish I could help you out, but to tell the truth, I have run
Flipper 3.04 on a 386SX and AMI bios with none of the problems you
describe, and with an Omnikey extended keyboard.
     While we're on the subject though, I did have problems when I
originally got my machine keeping the CMOS settings.  In order to
resolve thie problem that arises when trying to reset these things
without speech, I found a few utilities that allow the settings to be
saved to file, and with this program on a bootable floppy along with a
speech program, I was able to boot and rewrite the settings with just a
few keystrokes.  The name of the file is CMOSUTIL.ZIP, and it is
available from here via file request or downloading.
     Sorry about not having a solution to your problem, but apparantly
it is either more specific than just the extended keyboard, 386 and AMI
bios, or related to the speed of the machine or something.  Do you have
a full blown 386?
    Good luck, cause I know that has to be a very frustrating situation!
                                                        Willie

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