Thanks, Lars.
I have CompuShow2000 on a 300 MHz laptop (at home) and I will check it out
tonight or when I go home for lunch. I'm sure that I have used it before on
the laptop as I converted some photos to 800 X 600 .GIF to display using the
"Razzle Dazzle" screen saver.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
104 deg (F) yesterday (40C), warmer today!
Summer is almost here!
Lars Wigrell wrote:
. > > I don't think that I have ever run into the "notorious Runtime Error 200
. > > bug." Could you expand on this?
. > Of course. Actually I'm not into programming very much, but AFAIK it's a
. > bug in the CRT library of TurboPascal 5 and/or 6, or similar. Effectively
. > this means that if you run the program on a "fast" machine, usually
. > faster than 150-200 MHz, the program aborts with this Runtime Error.
. > Some programs can easily be fixed using a small, universal patch program,
. > sometimes called TPFIX.EXE or similar, but CShow2000 can't, probably due
. > to it has been compressed and/or encrypted. Another solution is to simply
. > slow down the computer by emulating a 386 at 100 MHz or so. There are
. > slow-down programs around. One is written by a guy named Bret Johnson (I
. > *think* that's his name :-), and is about 35kB.
. > If the list is interested, I can either try to find the URL to his web
. > site, or send the program to someone on this list who can put it for
. > download on his/hers own web site (Bernie? G�nter? Michael?)
