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#Chaos Exit

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#17144From: Patrick WalkerJun 13, 1992 10:55 PM
I am running Chaos on an IBM XT compatible PC with 640k of memory under DR-DOS 3.4. I cannot exit the program gracefully, I must reboot my computer. All other functions seem to work normally. When I try to exit from the title screen, I go to another screen with buttons along the left side including Alt-X. When I click on that button or press Alt-X, I go back to the title screen. I can only go back and forth between the two screens, but never back to DOS. What am I doing wrong?
#17151From: sherwood egbertJun 14, 1992 1:33 AM
dr. dos is sick or he is treating himself. get over to dos 5.0 or microsoft dos. to run a clone dos on a clone is of course cloning and cloning is of course at best a clone of a clone. get real dos! sherwood (a clone of sherwood forest) some times i'm not here … you know….
#17152From: Dave Byrnes [AEC TM]Jun 14, 1992 2:29 AM
Patrick – Chaos seems to be fussier than most programs as far as operating systems go; for instance, if you're running under DOS 5, you have to use the LOADFIX command to make it load above the first 64k of expanded memory. I suspect that your problem also has to do with your operating system.
#17153From: Josh Gordon [ex-Adesk]Jun 14, 1992 4:22 AM
I sure sympathize with you folk — I wrote the thing, and it won't run at all on my usual DRDOS6 setup — I have to boot from a floppy to get it to work. Make it a bit embarrassing when I want to show of my work!
#17197From: PhilD [ADESK]Jun 15, 1992 1:41 PM
This sounds like a problem experienced with Norton's NDOS.COM (replaces COMMAND.COM). DR DOS might be doing the same thing. The problem comes about become the batch processor in NDOS doesn't recognise error levels over 99. In the CHAOS batch file, there is a line that reads IF ERRORLEVEL==999… if you change that to read IF ERRORLEVEL==99… then it should work fine for you. –PhilD [ADESK]
#17244From: Josh Gordon [ex-Adesk]Jun 15, 1992 9:21 PM
Actually, that 999 number was a DSP error on my part; the number shoulda been 255. Nothing over 255 makes any sense at all.
#17285From: PhilD [ADESK]Jun 16, 1992 11:47 AM
Well, setting it down to 99 fixed all those kinds of problems with it. Thanks!