HELP! QEMM & Ani Pro
13 messages in this thread
Hello All,
I just installed QEMM, and now Animator Pro doesn't run. It says:
Abnormal program termination: Illegal instruction
CS:EIP = F000h:0000EA01h
How can I get Ani Pro running with QEMM? Thanks.
Pete
Pete,
There was a discussion about a similar problem quite awhile back. I'm afraid
that I don't remember all of the details but I'll give it a shot.
First you wnat to make sure that QEMM's DPMI support is enabled by loading
the QDPMI.SYS driver. QEMM probably already did this for you at install.
Second, and I think that this is the root of your problem, I found on my
system that Ani Pro seemed to be accessing ROM BIOS in a way that QEMM does
not recognize. I had to exclude the range FC00-FFFF to get my Ani Pro to
work. If you want to be conservative you could exclude the entire ROM BIOS
with X=F000-FFFF.
Hope this helps,
Steven
Steven,
>> First you wnat to make sure that QEMM's DPMI support is enabled by
loading the QDPMI.SYS driver<<
I've got a copy of a message #61363 from Jonas Ruikis to John
Tissavary back on Oct. 12th 93 that said: "Your right. Animatior pro
is NOT DPMI compliant." Jonas. [ADESK]
For What it's Worth. BTW if your going to also try and shell out to
Ani Pro from 3DS you should make sure that you allocate at least 2MB
of Ram, I use 4MB on my system and all you have to do is use [
-maxvcpi 4096 ] to solve that one. Jes' My 2cents worth.<g> James M.
Murphy
James,
Good comments, and now that you've jogged my memory a little better, I
remember people comming down on both sides of the QDPMI.SYS issue. It
probably depends alot on how you've set up other things in you system.
In my case I had the exact same problem as Pete until I excluded the
FC00-FFFF range from QEMM.
It's nice that PC compatability is such an airtight standard (yeah sure!!).
So muce of this boils down to trial and error and just a little Voodoo <G>.
Thanks for the tips,
Steven
<< Ani Pro and DPMI >>
The current international shipping version of Animator Pro
is DPMI compliant.
jonas[adesk]
great, what about an upgrade option for U.S. users?
chuck jameson
silver tongue software
Kenneth,
We are discussing this exact same issue in the thread "QEMM & Ani Pro"
started by Peter Campbell. Set your CIS navigation program to read the thread
starting with message 91752.
Below is some of the relevant information from that thread:
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17-Mar-94 09:15:06
Pete,
There was a discussion about a similar problem quite awhile back. I'm afraid
that I don't remember all of the details but I'll give it a shot.
First you wnat to make sure that QEMM's DPMI support is enabled by loading
the QDPMI.SYS driver. QEMM probably already did this for you at install.
Second, and I think that this is the root of your problem, I found on my
system that Ani Pro seemed to be accessing ROM BIOS in a way that QEMM does
not recognize. I had to exclude the range FC00-FFFF to get my Ani Pro to
work. If you want to be conservative you could exclude the entire ROM BIOS
with X=F000-FFFF.
Hope this helps,
Steven
19-Mar-94 21:46:26
Steven,
>> First you wnat to make sure that QEMM's DPMI support is enabled by loading
the QDPMI.SYS driver<<
I've got a copy of a message #61363 from Jonas Ruikis to John Tissavary back
on Oct. 12th 93 that said:
"Your right. Animatior pro is NOT DPMI compliant."
Jonas. [ADESK]
For What it's Worth.
BTW if your going to also try and shell out to Ani Pro from 3DS you should
make sure that you allocate at least 2MB of Ram, I use 4MB on my system and
all you have to do is use [ -maxvcpi 4096 ] to solve that one.
Jes' My 2cents worth.<g>
James M. Murphy
___________________________________________________________________________
Hope that helps,
Steven
Wow…
How cool. I was going to leave a msg with questions… About Qemm… But, I
think I'll go X some segments… First
X-asperated
Dr PiXel
Steven,
Thanks for replying. I tried excluding various ranges as you suggested, and it
didn't help. The only thing that fixes the problem is removing QDPMI from
CONFIG.SYS. My applications all run now, and I have 616 KB of RAM available.
I guess I don't need QDPMI.
Pete
Peter,
Abnormal Program Termination usually means there is a memory conflict of some
sort happening. If the other specific solutions do not work, then you will have
to strip your system to see what drivers are conflicting. REM out everything in
your config.sys except files= and buffers=, and in your autoexec.bat REM out
everything except prompt= and path=. Also delete the aa.cfg file, if it was
created. You should be able to start the program in this configuration. Then,
load those lines back in one at a time until you find out which one is causing
the conflict. Once you know which is the culprit, we can decide what to do
about it.
-Brian
Brian,
Thanks for replying. The line that loaded QDPMI was causing the Abnormal
Program Termination. Removing that line fixed the problem.
Pete
Pete,
I had to rem out my QDPMI.SYS line to get animator to run. If your
still having problems, loose that line, and see if that helps.
David
David,
Thanks for replying. Your solution worked for me. I removed QDPMI from my
CONFIG.SYS, and Ani Pro runs again. I don't think I need QDPMI anyway.
Pete