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#AniPro and WinNT 3.51

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#190907From: Steve IrwinSep 14, 1995 7:48 PM

I'm trying to run Animator Pro under WinNT 3.51. I get the following messages… Can't find or create path element C:\PAAT ERROR! Temp file path doesn't have any valid devices. C:\PAAT ERROR! Can't find or create path element C:\PAAT ERROR! Temp file path doesn't have any valid devices. C:\PAAT ERROR! Please help!

#190913From: dave aguilarSep 14, 1995 8:55 PM

>> I'm trying to run Animator Pro under WinNT 3.51. I get the following messages… Can't find or create path element C:\PAAT ERROR! << Animator Pro is a DOS application. boot to DOS and install the program which will create the necessary \PAAT directory. -dave

#191005From: Steve IrwinSep 15, 1995 1:53 PM

I've been running AniPro fine for a long time under DOS. The directory is there. If I boot DOS I can run it fine…it's when I try to run under NT I have the problem. Any other ideas? Thanks.

#191061From: dave aguilarSep 15, 1995 9:23 PM

>> I've been running AniPro fine for a long time under DOS. The directory is there. If I boot DOS I can run it fine…it's when I try to run under NT I have the problem. << not really. the program was never written to run under NT or shells… anything you can do within NT to create a "DOS only environment" will be the key to running AniPro without problems. -dave

#191351From: Jeremy Hubbell [Adesk]Sep 18, 1995 2:01 AM

PMFJI, You can usually run AniPro in 320×200 mode in an NT DOS window w/o any problem. However, when you try to run using a VESA mode, that classifies as a direct hardware access which NT gives a big NO-NO to. Unfortunately, there's really no way around this in NT. Jh

#191379From: Larry MintonSep 18, 1995 8:07 AM

Partially true – I have an ATI Mach64 board that allows limited VESA support under NT. It appears to be that the video driver has to be written to support VESA. ATI does, Diamond does not. Vibrant really ought to be designing video drivers for NT and os/2. LAM

#191484From: Steve IrwinSep 18, 1995 6:38 PM

So are you running AniPro OK under NT? My problem is not a video issue. I get messages saying that it's unable to find the PAAT directory. The dir exists, if I boot DOS, I can run fine. When I boot NT (FAT file system) it won't run. I'm using AniPro in 640×480 and 1024×768 with the VESA drivers on an ATI MACH64, Pentium 100, NT 3.51, 64M RAM. Any ideas? Did you have any problems like this? Thanks.