burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) (09/07/87)
I just got MS Flight Simulator (for my kids -) ) to run on my AT. For normal use, I have the usual gaggle of drivers and TSR's. I am running PC DOS 3.1 without any modifications. I found that I could get FS to run if I booted up a vanilla DOS with only ANSI.SYS loaded? However, I would like to preserve my normal environment as much as possible. Any suggestions or experience on drivers and TSR's that definitely work/don't work with FS? Please post to the net rather than sending E-mail. My mailer is very flaky here. Thanks in advance -- Philip Burton burton@parcvax.COM ...!hplabs!parcvax!burton Xerox Corp. preferred path: burton.osbunorth@xerox.COM 408 737 4635 ... usual disclaimers apply ...
cy@ashtate (Cy Shuster) (09/08/87)
Normally you completely reboot with FS, so it's not the TSRs. Check the documentation: there are special techniques for EGA and Herc boards. --Cy--
burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) (09/09/87)
In article <329@ashton.UUCP> cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes: >Normally you completely reboot with FS, so it's not the TSRs. Check >the documentation: there are special techniques for EGA and Herc boards. > I DID check the manual. For my version, 2.13, you can boot the system up normally, and then insert the FS disk in drive A. For an EGA, you use the e parameter after the program name, .i.e. fs e When I reconfigured by autoexec.bat and config.sys to be as vanilla as possible,with only ansi.sys loaded, fs ran fine. -- Philip Burton burton@parcvax.COM ...!hplabs!parcvax!burton Xerox Corp. preferred path: burton.osbunorth@xerox.COM 408 737 4635 ... usual disclaimers apply ...
woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan) (09/09/87)
>I DID check the manual. For my version, 2.13, you can boot the system up >normally, and then insert the FS disk in drive A. For an EGA, you use the >e parameter after the program name, .i.e. > > fs e > It is possible to get around this problem and even get FS to terminate back to DOS by using a great shareware program called Flight acessories III that will deprotect FS and give it an auto-pilot help function and flight recorder on the way. It's written by L.Dale Rhoton and is available on many local bulletin boards. It even lets you run off the hard disk. ******************************************************************************* Time will only tell what the future holds for the destiny of man... *********************************************************************************
dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) (09/10/87)
In article <474@parcvax.Xerox.COM>, burton@parcvax.UUCP writes: > > I just got MS Flight Simulator (for my kids -) ) to run on my AT. For normal > use, I have the usual gaggle of drivers and TSR's. I am running PC DOS 3.1 > without any modifications. > > I found that I could get FS to run if I booted up a vanilla DOS with only > ANSI.SYS loaded? However, I would like to preserve my normal environment > as much as possible. > > Any suggestions or experience on drivers and TSR's that definitely work/don't > work with FS? Please post to the net rather than sending E-mail. My mailer > is very flaky here. I may be wrong, but I think MS Flight Simulator does not run under MS-DOS. Yes, you can execute it from MS-DOS, and you can also boot it directly from its distribution diskette, but I think that once it gets control, it takes over. You can't exit from it and return to MS-DOS, can you? When it is booted, it assumes the machine is reset. If you execute it from command.com, it probably assumes things are in a relatively quiescent state. If you've got TSR's floating around hooking interrupts and such, you've probably perturbed the environment enough that a standalone program like that one can't figure out what kind of a machine it's in. -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. A node for news. Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | clyde | mtune | ihnp4}!westmark!dave
tj@utgpu.UUCP (09/11/87)
Does Flight Simulator support a Hercules display? The last version I saw was strictly a CGA version. Does the EGA support really use ega or does it just stick the ega in cga mode. Does someone want to (send me|post) Flight Accessories III? thks