cretney@ihlpm.UUCP (cretney) (06/20/85)
BOY DOES THIS GUY NEED HELP !!!!
I have recently purchased a program from IBM called PC PALETTE.
This is a program similar to MAC-PAINT by APPLE. This program
runs fine on an IBM PC but when I run it on my AT&T 6300 the
program causes the machine to reboot. The file that causes
this is called driver.com. I will be the first to admit that
my knowledge is limited with what goes on inside these two
machines, but, could someone please explain what is happening
to cause this and also if there is any way to fix this problem?
P.S. This is a GREAT program for $39.00.
If only it worked on my 6300. {:-(
ihnp4!ihlpm!cretney Thanks for the
help.
Joe Cretneyjsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (06/24/85)
In article <302@ihlpm.UUCP> cretney@ihlpm.UUCP (cretney) writes: >I have recently purchased a program from IBM called PC PALETTE. ... >runs fine on an IBM PC but when I run it on my AT&T 6300 the >program causes the machine to reboot. The file that causes >this is called driver.com. You don't say whether you run driver.com or, as its name implies, it is a driver that you install to be loaded automagically at boot time. You also don't say whether you actually have a colour board etc. on your 6300. I must plead ignorance of the details of the 6300 per se; however I have been forced to work woth several 8086 machines, some "PC-compatible." One interesting thing is that the memory reserved for the video image -- different locations for B&W and colour -- can actually be at a non-IBM-standard location in some so-called compatibles. Causes no problems if you just use the DOS character-output calls; but if you access memory directly this causes problems. Especially if something else vital i s there. The program may also try to change something in DOS itself. This is an oft-necessary piece of hackery, considering exactly how useful DOS makes itself to people who are trying to do more than run Lotus and WordStar. However, if done in a quick-and-dirty manner or if the DOS on the 6300 is sufficiently different from PC-DOS, this can also write into unexpected areas. *** LONG LIVE UNIX. (and protected memory) *** Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}
jeffm@mmintl.UUCP (Jeffrey Miller) (06/28/85)
I have used an ATT 6300 here for development work for a few weeks. I run IBM DOS 2.1 and have found it to be completely compatible. In other words, I have not found anything which did not work properly or at least just as on the IBM PC. The 6300 I have has the latest motherboard version (#4?) and maybe that makes a difference. To DOS, the 6300 looks like a color machine. That is, the video segment is at B800, not B000 as in the mono- chrome IBM PC mode. Our product writes directly to video memory for the sake of speed, and works just fine. So I don't think that is the problem with PC PALETTE. (I have the green screen monitor which shows colors as different shades of green, and very well at that). Jeff
jeffm@mmintl.UUCP (Jeffrey Miller) (07/12/85)
* After posting a previous followup about the ATT 6300, I received some mail, some of which was from ARPAnet people. Unfortunately, we have problems getting there from here so please excuse this posting. The 640x400 graphics capability of the 6300 is the same as that of the monochrome IBM PC. In general, the 6300 color and mono displays look much better than those of IBM, in my opinion. Jeff ************************************************* * Jeff Miller * * Multimate International Corp. * * 52 Oakland Avenue * * East Hartford, CT 06108-9911 * * UUCP: * * ...!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!pwa-b!mmintl!jeffm * ************************************************* *