1. [WIN] ATTN: EXOTICA'S KEEPER
- Posted by Mike Hurley <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM>
Nov 04, 2000
-
Last edited Nov 05, 2000
I posted a message a while back about how most of the
exotica demos locked my machine up. I though that
since I never got any kind of response, that I'd
repost hoping to get a response. I have a 4MB Diamond
Stealth 3D 4000 using DirectX 7a. I am running at
800x600x24bit. I have 64MB RAM and am using a Celeron
566MHz. The sound card I have is a SoundBlaster
PCI128. Hope this helps to come up with a fix.
Mike Hurley
=====
It compiled. The first screen came up. Ship it.
--Bill Gates
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
2. Re: [WIN] ATTN: EXOTICA'S KEEPER
- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
Nov 04, 2000
-
Last edited Nov 05, 2000
On 4 Nov 2000, at 19:26, Mike Hurley wrote:
> I posted a message a while back about how most of the
> exotica demos locked my machine up. I though that
> since I never got any kind of response, that I'd
> repost hoping to get a response. I have a 4MB Diamond
> Stealth 3D 4000 using DirectX 7a. I am running at
> 800x600x24bit. I have 64MB RAM and am using a Celeron
> 566MHz. The sound card I have is a SoundBlaster
> PCI128. Hope this helps to come up with a fix.
Sorry, Mike, i don't use it, so i can't help.
Kat
3. Re: [WIN] ATTN: EXOTICA'S KEEPER
I've no association with Exotica other than being a happy user, but for what
it's worth I can see I can be of any help.
Hm, that is a bit puzzling. In terms of power, I can at least verify you
have more than enough of everything to get them going. On my old 200mhz
computer I can run Exotica aps at a satisfying speed. Which examples have
worked for you so far? Oh, and apologies in advance if I ask any insulting
questions....just want to cover all the bases. :)
The first thing to make sure of, when you unzipped it, did you keep the
directory structure intact? Most of them load media from various
subdirectorys, so that could be the problem if only the individual files
were unzipped. Let's see....another problem could be joystick initilization.
I _think_ this was changed, but I recall when Exotica was first released it
would allways lock up when I tried it on a computer with no gamepad, if a
call to initialise the joystick was given. Hmmm....that's all I can think of
off hand. Sorry, I was hoping I'd have more ideas.
If you're willing, lets give this a try. Could you see if these two examples
lock your computer, blit_bmp.exw and Generic.exw? If either lock up your
system, could you look right after for a file in that directory called
E_Report.txt? Or if neither of these do, could you run one of the
problematic examples, and in either case post the text from that file here?
It's a basic log of some of exotica's functions as they're executed and
should give some hints. Shoot, looking at generic.exw I notice there's no
debug file in there. If you add
atom debugfile
debugfile = allocate_string("E_Report_Generic")
c_proc(REPORT_MODE,{debugfile, 1})
imediatly after the commented text at the begining of generic.exw 's
MainLoop_Init() it should create one for that example when run, called
E_Report_Generic
Hmmm...hope this might wind up being some use.....I think you'll be very
happy with Exotica if we can get it running on your system ^^
Oh, and you might be able to break out of an exotica lockup by pressing
alt-tab-enter
or at least in the majority of cases on this computer I can. On my other
computer that dosn't work very often, so who knows :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hurley" <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:26 PM
Subject: [WIN] ATTN: EXOTICA'S KEEPER
> I posted a message a while back about how most of the
> exotica demos locked my machine up.
4. Re: [WIN] ATTN: EXOTICA'S KEEPER
Hi Mike, I apologize for not responding sooner. Your machines specs should
be okay. Please try what Naflign said in his post, specially saying what
examples are causing you the problems( thanks Naflign for the
troublshooting response ). Also, they should generate an 'E_Report.txt' text
document file. If you can, please email me the generated report after a you
run the example that's causing you the problems.
I don't have the Euphoira mailing list sent to me daily anymore. I stop by
at the mailing archives every now and then to see if there is any new
exotica messages here. Unfortunitly, I haven't been checking here regulary
like I should. I do constantly go to the Exotica forum to check for any new
messages there( http://pub19.ezboard.com/bexoticadxgamelibrary ).
I look forward in trying fix the problems you have. You might want to
continue this on the Exotica forum were I can respond to you faster...
----------------------------
Todd Riggins
Exotecha Enterprises
http://exotica.iwarp.com
emailto:triggins at airmail.net
