#Street Atlas w Win 3.1 ?
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Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get Street Atlas USA to work with
Windows 3.1?
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 was necessary but it's hard to argue with success [g].
Tom
I am having trouble with Street Atlas as well. I have a Mitsumi drive,
versions 2.2 and 2.21 of MSCDEX, Windows 3.1, and versions 1.1 and 1.3 of
the CDROM device driver. I get intermittent errors using Street Atlas no
matter which version of MSCDEX I use although all other CD's I have seem to
run flawlessly.
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 system with no LPT2 port, I used IRQ5 (the board jumper
has to match this). The automatic speed detection was selecting S=3 (for
25mHz clock speeds or greater) which did cause some intermittent errors, so
I specified /S:2 which is correct for this machine.
My drive came with version 2.20 of MSCDEX, which I installed in
AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following line:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /E /M:32
Version 2.21 that I got from MSL-1 here on CIS just won't work on my
system and I've heard from others that it's broken in some way.
I'm using QEMM 6.01 which loads both MTMCDS.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE in high
memory and everything works just fine, better than with Windows 3.0, in
fact. Under 3.0 any attempt to run the National Geographic "Mammals"
CD-ROM from a DOS window would cause a 'system integrity' violation and
terminate Mammals. This works perfectly under Win 3.1.
Hope you get it working OK,
Tom