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DATE: 21 MAR 94 / 1020 TO: ALL FROM: BRIAN SMITH SUBJ: OS2 2.1 – ANIMATOR PRO 1.3 & 3D STUDIO NOTEBOOK SETTINGS REQUESTED I HAD LIMITED SUCCESS IN GETTING ANI TO WORK UNDER OS2. THE BEST METHOD SEEMS TO BE TO BOOT A DOS IMAGE THOUGH THAT CAUSES COMPLICATIONS IN ITSELF. I USED A VIRTUAL DOS MACHINE AND BOOTED FROM A DISK IMAGE FILE OF (DOS 6.0). ANI CAME UP FINE THOUGH SLOWLY & I WAS ABLE TO ACCESS MY .PCX FILES. THE PROBLEM CAME IN WHEN I TRIED TO SWITCH BACK TO THE OS2 DESKTOP. THE PALLETE BECAME CORRUPTED AND I HAD TWO LOVELY BARS OF GARBAGE ON THE SCREEN. ALT<ESC> AND CTRL<ESC> MET WITH NO SUCCESS AND I WAS FORCED TO REBOOT USING THE RESET BUTTON AS THE KEYPAD/MOUSE WERE NOT RESPONDING TO CTRL-ALT-DEL. IF I SHELL TO DOS THROUGH ANI'S "SHELL TO DOS" OPTION I CAN THEN RETURN TO THE DESKTOP BY HITTING CTRL<ESC>. ONCE I RETURN TO THE DOS SESSION I CAN RE-ENTER ANI BY TYPING EXIT. ONCE BACK IN ANI I CAN NO LONGER ACCESS ANY OF THE SUB-MENUS AND ALL THE DIALOG BOXES HAVE THE FOLLOWING TEXT IN THEM. EXAMPLE – CLICK ON THE "ABOUT ANI" MENU OPTION FOLLOWING TEXT APPEARS INSTEAD OF THE DIALOG BOXES |—————————————–| | ??AMESTRING ERRLINES CANT_LOAD2 ?? | | | | ERROR CODE 614 | |—————————————–| ________________ | CONTINUE | |______________| THEN I GET A ERROR CODE 608 AND THE SCREEN RETURNS TO NORMAL. THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXIT THE PROGRAM AT THIS POINT (THE EXIT ANI OPTION GETS THE ABOVE ERROR AS WELL) SO I HIT ITEMS TILL I EXITED THE CONFIGURE SCREEN SIZE – DUMPS ME BACK TO A DOS PROMPT… AFTER REBOOTING I TRIED TO RUN ANI WITH THE SETTINGS MENTIONED IN MESSAGE NUMBER 74606 DATE 6 JAN 94 0930. I RECEIVED A COPY OF THE MESSAGE FROM ARTISOFT TECH SUPPORT (NIK GRANT). WHO FAXED IT TO MY WORK CENTER. UNFORTUNATLY THESE SETTINGS STILL DID NOT CURE THE PROBLEM IN FACT ANI WOULDNT EVEN LOAD. I DOUBLE CLICK ON THE ANI PROGRAM FOLDER AND THE SYSTEM HANGS – NO SHIFT TO A DOS FULL SCREEN WINDOW OR ANYTTHING JUST A NICE TIGHT LOCK UP – NO MOUSE OR KEYBOARD COMMANDS ARE ACCEPTED. THIS HAPPENED THREE TIMES BEFORE I GAVE UP… ANYTIME SOMEONE WANTS TO JUMP IN AND EXPLAIN WHAT IS GOING ON – LET ME KNOW! 🙂 DPMI – ENABLED DPMI LIMIT – 64 (I ONLY HAVE 8MEGS SO I SET IT TO 6) INT DURING IO – ON DO I HAVE TO CHANGE THE DEFALUT EMS/XMS SETTINGS? I HAVE SPECIFIED IN MY OS2 CONFIG.SYS TO HIGHLOAD DOS AND USE UMB'S SO I DONT HAVE TO SET THIS EVERY TIME WHEN I SET UP A DOS PROGRAM… SOME SYSTEM INFO MCT (CLONE) 486DX 33MHZ WITH 8MEG RAM TSENG BASED SVGA WITH 1MEG RAM 2 PHYSICAL HARD DRIVES 1 CDROM USUSAL FLOPPY & STANDARD I/O PORT CONFIGURATION OS2 2.1 & DOS 6.0 – DUAL BOOT RUNNING NOVELL NETWARE 3.12 (DEVICE DRIVERS LOADED IN OS2 & DOS6) ANI PRO VER 1.3 I AM RUNNING AAPRO 1.3 AND I BELIEVE 3DS 2.0 AS FAR AS 3DS IS CONCERNED I CANT EVEN GET IT TO RUN AT ALL UNDER OS2. WHEN I ATTEMPT TO LOAD IT GET A PHAR LAP "THE CHIP IS RUNNING IN VIRTUAL 8086 MODE" LOAD OF BUNK WHEN I ATTEMPT TO GET 3DS TO RUN. I HAVE THE NOTEBOOK SETTINGS THE SAME AS THE ONES I GET AAPRO TO WORK WITH. SO THATS THAT – ANY COMMENTS ARE WELCOME… REGARDS, BRIAN