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#Animator Pro & DOS 6

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#42714From: Brent RossMay 4, 1993 5:49 PM
I just upgraded from MS-DOS 5 and Stacker to MS-DOS 6 and doublespace. Animator Pro will not even load now. I can get it to load by using F5 the clean boot, or by running it under Windows 3.1 (although very slowly). The culprit is definitely EMM386.EXE, when I exclude it while booting ANI loads fine. Is there a magic switch I am missing, the only thing I do now is exclude the range D000-DFFF for my Targa+ board.
#42720From: Sanjeev DayalMay 4, 1993 7:26 PM
I have a similar configuration, by performing a similar upgrade. I however, use the QEMM memory manager, and exclude the video region of B000-B7FF and have no problems loading it. Any suggestions on how to make a Summasketch III Pro 18×12 work on this?
#42842From: Brent RossMay 5, 1993 4:05 PM
I just tried Brian's suggestion and sure enough it works fine after a 30-40 second load time. Sorry all we run are Summasketch II's and an Acecat 6X6.
#42807From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]May 5, 1993 11:57 AM
My copy works with EMM386, but it takes about 30-40 seconds to load, while there is nothing being displayed. It may look as if the system locked, but it really is just taking longer to load. We're looking into why this happens now and will post a message about using DOS 6 with AAPRO soon.
#42841From: Brent RossMay 5, 1993 3:51 PM
I did some fiddling this morning, possibly all for not because I don't seem to have 30-40 sec's patience in me. I tried excluding everything in upper memory but same result. I copied the EMM386.EXE from WIN31 back and removed all the new size switches from the device and lh lines. Rebooted and everything ran fine. I will go back and try the DOS 6 EMM386 and waiting a little longer, this reminds me of some old hard drives we have that can take hours to timeout when low level formatting. I just shake my head and wonder what exactly is it doing all that time. Maybe someone at Microsoft is lurking and can shed a little light. I seem to be in the minority, but actually like DOS 6 and am having no trouble with it and ACAD 11/12, and everything else we run here. Any insight is appreciated.
#42856From: Paul FolgerMay 5, 1993 6:30 PM
I'm not sure you can help me but I'm about to become a student at the Computer Arts Inst. in SF, and was wondering if Adesk offers any kind of student discount on Ani-Pro or 3D Studio? Any info would be great.