On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:00:15 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:09:36 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
<snip> >> In above mentioned video setup.... choose VESA/640x480/HiColor >> (instead of the Trident choice) > This gives: Unable to initialize video mode -please run setup.bat ! > Followed by: Arachne V1.71;UE01 is taking off... Oops, How much video memory do you have? HiColor mode needs 1mb minimum. Try Vesa/640x480/256color <snip> > BTW: help pages did improve very much! > Would be nice to have some more words about memory management... this is > very confusing for new ones not accustomed to DOS or new users of > Arachne. > Without sufficient free memory Arachne does not function and certainly > not dial. > To me, DOS user for many years, coventional... RAM... extended... load > high... memory resident... etc. are very confusing. > And I am not the only one. How's this for starters ??? <g> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/memory.txt Thank you Dave, for allowing me to keep this great "tutorial" posted for all to see. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
