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#Welcome!
Message #21
This is for new members just checking in to this brand new forum. **** Welcome to the Glamour Forum! **** We of the Go Graphics Group Staff hope that you enjoy your stay here and encourage you to browse our libraries for the very best in glamour photography. Please don't…
Steven, Thanks much for all the good information. I think my first step will be to re-install AAP 1.3 and try to run it from Windows with QEMM out of the picture entirely. I've had good success with other DPMI programs that wouldn't run reliably from DOS with QEMM active.…
Jeffrey, Thanks much. I'll do some experimentation AFTER I back everything up on my HD. regards, Tom
John, Thanks for the reply. This would SEEM to point the finger at QEMM or QDPMI. Hmmm. Tom
#AAPro 1.3 and QDPMI
Message #56182
My 386 system uses DOS 5.0, QEMM 7.01 and SuperStor Pro with all drives compressed except for a small 2 meg partition used for QEMM and bootup. After installing ANI Pro 1.3 on one of the compressed drives, I was unable to get it to run at all, from DOS…
Perhaps saying that the 2S isn't "fully MPC compatible" is a little strong. I'd say it's pretty much on the ragged edge of full compatibility though. At least on my system, animation and motion video on some (not all) CDs tended to have frequent pauses and poor video/audio synchronization. This…
Rich, The latest edition of Nautilus for Windows (Volume 2-12) has some AVI files and a runtime version of Video For Windows to play them. It also upgrades the Window 3.1 Media Player to play AVI files. It works well with my new Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S MPC compatible drive. Very smooth…
Chris, You need to check the model number of the Mitsumi drive. If it's the CRMC-LU002S, it'll do fine for still photos and music but won't be satisfactory for animation and motion video or PhotoCD applications. If it's the CRMC-LU005S, it's fully MPC and multisession PhotoCD capable and a terrific…
Mike, My Mitusmi LU005S drive came today and I'm happy to report that it performs beautifully, especially with full motion video clips using Microsoft Video for Windows; very smooth and perfect synchronization of video and sound. It also checks out with Battle Chess MPC and Mammals. It is a MAJOR…
The Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S is available now. It is MPC, XA and multisession PhotoCD compatible. Average access time is 350 ms. You can buy it for $209 from: Romart Computer Corp. 1180 Northern Blvd. Manhasset, NY 11030 Tel: (516) 365-9371 Fax: (516) 365-9488 ——————————- Ask for Larry Bilello, Senior Sales Representative…
The music and voices for Battle Chess are regular CD-Audio, so you have to connect the audio output jacks of the CD-Rom drive to the mixer input of the SB Pro in order to get sound. The footsteps are digital (.WAV I think) and those go through the SB Pro…
Paul, As you point out there are minor data base errors here and there in both Street Atlas and MapExpert. I suppose that's to be expected with over 5 million streets to keep track of. Overall it's amazingly accurate though. As to which side of the street is the left…
You'll enjoy MapExpert, Bruce. I got mine directly from DeLorme as noted. $495 may seem like a lot but this one's a true original, really unique. Tom
Ollie, Suggest retail for MapExpert is $495…no idea what the street price will work out to be. As a registered owner of Street Atlas (street price as low as $77) I was able to buy MapExpert for $295 and thought it was well worth it. That offer supposedly expired October…
Richard, The new version of Street Atlas is called MapExpert and is indeed a major upgrade. It has a new spiral bound manual which is quite comprehensive. Among the new features: o Printing from within the program – both regular and mural mode o Extensive annotation capabilities, labels, symbols, etc.…
Ed, There are three copies of MMPLAY.EXE right on the "Danger Hot Stuff" disc. \demos\creative\mmplay.exe \sbsounds\mmsb\mmplay.exe \sbsounds\mmsbpro\mmplay.exe The last one is a different size from the first two and may be a special version for the SBPRO. At any rate, copy the proper one to a directory in your path…
Should be no problem at all, Dan. When you're running from DOS, Speedcache+ will automatically use all available extended memory (unless you tell it differently during setup). When running from Windows, Speedcache+ normally will keep 1/4 of the installed extended memory for itself and 'lend' the rest back to Windows…
Reese, A few points in clarification: [1] My normal cache size for SpeedCache+ running under Windows 3.1 is 3 mb. I did use 8 mb during my comparison tests with CD Speedway but 3 mb seems to be more than adequate for most purposes. When running stuff from DOS, SpeedCache+…
Dan, I am using Speedcache+ on my 386-20 and it's the best CD cacher that I've seen yet, if you have the RAM to allocate to it. Unlike CD Speedway, which caches to files, whether on the hard disk or on a RAM disk, Speedcache+ caches directly to RAM and…
Clarke, well I'm a firm believer that if it isn't broke don't fix it! [g]. If you downloaded CDEXT.EXE from MSL-1 here on CIS only a couple of months ago, you have the right one despite what the CRC32 apparently is showing. I suppose there's a possibility of a corrupt…
ERM is Crazy Bob's company. Guess I should have mentioned that in the message.
ERM – Electronic Liquidators 37 Washington St. Melrose, MA 02176 Tel: (617) 662-9363 Fax: (617) 665-4856 Orders Only: (800) 776-5865, Monday-Friday, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Good idea..hope the sysop is reading these threads and will take note. As I cruise around Comdex, I'll try to collect a list of whatever I can find and put them together when I get back. Actually, just the Mitsumi info can cover quite a few bases since Mitsumi is…
Joe, Mitsumi Electronics Corp. 35 Pinelawn Road Melville, NY 11747 Tel: (516) 752-7730 East Coast distributor is: Romart Computer Corp. 1180 Northern Blvd. Manhasset, NY 11030 Tel: (516) 365-9371 Fax: (516) 365-9488 Contact: Larry Bilello, Senior Sales Representative As far as I know, v1.5 is the latest driver. There is…
Clarke, as an additional check, I just now downloaded a fresh copy of CDEXT.EXE from MSL-1 and ran the extracted MSCDEX.EXE through PKZIP with the same CRC32 result of EB7846D3, so it's apparently the 'good' version. It sure works well for me. Tom
Ran, Don't know about "Trade Shows", but I _have_ dealt with ERM and they are reliable with good prices. In fact I bought my CD-Rom drive from them and have been very happy with it. They generally exhibit at the computer flea market shows in the New England area. Tom
Clarke, Interesting. The 'good' value that I gave is from the MSCDEX.EXE that I downloaded from MSL-1 as CDEXT.EXE a couple of months ago. This also is the same CRC given in the docs for SpeedCache+ that I use for CD caching. Right after Windows 3.1 was released, there was…
What does your CONFIG.SYS file show for the CD-Rom driver? The /D:xxxx parameter must EXACTLY match the /D: parameter for MSCDEX.EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Tom
Sandy, There are actually TWO 'newer' versions of MSCDEX floating around, both with the same timestamp and byte count. One is buggy and the other isn't. You can test the one you have using the following technique: [1] Using PKZIP 1.10, compress MSCDEX.EXE to MSCDEX.ZIP [2] Test the result using…
Ronny, Here's the East Coast Mitsumi distributor, who can help you with this: ROMART Computer Corp. 1180 Northern Blvd. Manhasset, NY 11030 Tel: (516) 365-9371 Fax: (516) 365-9488 Contact: Larry Bilello, Senior Sales Representative ROMART was able to get me the v1.5 drivers (these ARE the latest) and they are…
GO MSL-1 (Microsoft Software Library) and download CDEXT.EXE. That's MSCDEX 2.21, the very latest version. Tom
Mike, Try the standard Microsoft MSCDEX.EXE v2.21. It's available in the Microsoft Software Library (GO MSL-1) as CDEXT.EXE. It works fine with MS-DOS 5.0 and SETVER.EXE isn't needed. Tom
Reese, With both Speedway and Speedcache+, the cache for motion video playback needs to be at least as big as the largest clip to be played. Otherwise, no effective caching occurs. In the case of Speedway, even those who don't have much in the way of extra RAM can usually…
Reese, Thanks for the reply. On this system, using CDSPEED bp:h:\ C:8192 s:off will also result in 8 buffers and 68 files as defaults, which is the configuration I've been using for the comparisons with Speedcache+. Using Mammals as a test application may not be the best way to test…
Reese, Correct the last paragraph of the long answer to read "unwatchable withOUT caching"…Sort of got ahead of myself there . Tom
Reese, My command line for CD Speedway is: CDSPEED BP:H:\ C:8192 S:OFF and it's the last line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT Drive H: is an 8mb RAM drive. I've also experimented with an 8mb HD cache (my HD is ESDI with 18ms access time) without any significant difference in performmance, either…
>Microsoft has said on GEnie that MSCDEX is no longer available for downloading on any BBS.< Whoever said that is mistaken. MSCDEX v2.21, the latest version, is still available for downloading from the Microsoft Software Library here on CIS (GO MSL-1). The correct filename is CDEXT.EXE, 30192 bytes. Also available…
Cheryl, The Tandy CDR-1000 is the Mitsumi CMRC-1000, and if you can get it for less than $200, it's not a bad deal. The drive is also sold under the GenStar and Talon labels, among others. It's a low end drive but still is able to meet the MPC specs…
#Cache Testing
Message #28075
Reese, Here's the first cut on my testing that we discussed last week. CD Speedway does perform as advertised but less well than SpeedCache+, both of which I've now tested, v1.01g for Speedway and v4.05 for SpeedCache+. Using an 8mb extended memory RAM drive for Speedway and an 8mb extended…
Robin, Will do..It just arrived this afternoon and I'll start testing it tomorrow. I don't run many TSRs so maybe it'll be ok. Tom
Thanks for the reply and the info. Yes, I decided to try Speedcache+ based on the Windows User review and probably will try CD Speedway as well before I'm done. I need a cache that will give me smooth full motion video when accompanied by sound. On my system, I…
Brian, I have no direct knowledge that Super PCKwik will cache a CD-Rom. My mentioning it was because of a Windows User magazine review in which PCKwik and the new Speedcache+ were reported to be very good at caching a CD-Rom in contrast to SMARTDRV which gave no speed advantage…
CD Speedway has been mentioned frequently here, although I haven't tried it. Microsoft's SMARTDRV seems ineffectual at caching a CD-Rom. There's a new product called SPEEDCACHE+ that's supposed to be excellent with CD-Rom's as well as regular hard drives. I've ordered a copy to try it out; stay tuned, will…
Bill, Thanks for the info, although I'm having NO problems with 2.20 with SETVER.EXE set up as it is; it's v2.21 that won't work on this machine for some reason. Maybe I can't use the same parameters and switches with 2.21 that I use with 2.20, something I intend to…
Thanks for the response, Bill, and I had already removed the lanman01.386 line from SYSTEM.INI. At present I'm loading MSCDEX 2.20 high with QEMM 6.01 and also am using the /E switch with it. It may be that I can't get away with that combination with v2.21. As soon as…
Bill, I've *never* been able to run my CD-ROM drive from Windows 3.0, 3.1 or MS-DOS 5.0 using the MCSDEX.EXE v2.21 currently available for downloading from MSL-1 (as CDEXT.EXE) here on CompuServe. It will invariably cause a system lockup or crash. I get flawless operation in both Windows and DOS…
Great! Glad you've got it working and are now enjoying the Street Atlas. I'm also glad that my drive came with the 1.2 instead of the 1.3 drivers . Guess the latest version isn't always the best. I've still been unable to find a copy of MSCDEX 2.21 (I've tried…
Mark, My Mitsumi drive came with version 1.20 of the device drivers, for both DMA and non-DMA setups. On my 386 system the non-DMA version worked the best in all cases, so the last line in my CONFIG.SYS reads: MTMCDS.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:300 /A:0 /M:15 /I:5 /S:2 This being a 386…
Bruce, Right after I upgraded to 3.1, I also found that Street Atlas wasn't reading the CD-ROM properly. My solution was to delete everything in the /ATLAS directory and re-install Street Atlas from scratch. This solved the problem and everything is back to normal. I have NO idea why re-installation…
Duff, Yes, I'm convinced that the 2.21 in MSL is broken in some way. I've gone back to good old 2.20 which performs flawlessly and was the one that came with my Mitsumi CD-ROM drive. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" The other mystery is the statement that 2.21…
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