Re: XGS32

[Dan@home.com (Dan)]

On 19 Aug 1998 15:19:31 GMT, !smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer) wrote:

>Thanks for the update though. I am glad that people are getting *some* use out 
>of it.

This seems as good a place as any to share my results so far.

I've tried it on 3 different machines and 5 different OSes.  All now
have the XGS32.DLL properly registered

On a Win95a (SP1) machine (Pentium 133 with 48 megs ram) with Directx
6 installed, I get as far as pressing the Run button.  It then crashes
with the following:

XGS32 caused an invalid page fault in
module XGS32.DLL at 014f:00e77d2f.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=014f EIP=00e77d2f EFLGS=00010246
EBX=815e5b04 SS=0157 ESP=017bff74 EBP=bff91059
ECX=00000000 DS=0157 ESI=00000000 FS=3137
EDX=00000000 ES=0157 EDI=00000040 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8a 04 0a 8b 15 78 8b 01 01 66 ff 05 54 8b 01 01 
Stack dump:
0000000e 01019038 017bffc8 815e5be4 017bff84 00e790c6 00e71b72
00000008 00e77f31 bff86917 00000000 00e71b72 00000008 815e5be4
00000000 017bffa0 

On a Win98 machine (Pentium 233 with 64 megs ram), it doesn't even
come up.  I get a small window that just says "Unexpected Error"
(aren't they all?!?).  This is not the release version of Win98,
however, but a very late beta version (RC3 actually, release was like
RC6).

On the same machine as above under NT 4 Server with SP3, I once again
get as far as pressing the run button, then I get an empty window that
says "XGS32 client host" on the top, but the mouse is invisible.  I
can alt-tab away from it to reveal an error screen showing "Run time
error 91:  Object Variable or With Block Variable not set".  Pressing
OK will sometimes take me back to the XGS32 main screen where I can
stop and then exit.

On a pentium 166, 32 meg laptop running the Beta 2 of NT 5
Workstation, it actually runs fine.  It is *much* faster than the old
XGS 0.50 on the same machine, or any machine here for that matter.
GS/OS 6.01, Appleworks 3.0, GS Basic and ProDOS Applesoft came up OK.
Success finally!  That's all I've tested so far.

However, on the same machine, running the release version of Win98,  I
get the same error as the Win98 RC3 machine, a small window that just
says "Unexpected error".  The difference between these 2 versions of
Win98 is virtually nothing, just a couple of setup files changed, so
this was not surprising.

Yes, it definitely is VERY BETA.  I'm somewhat surprised that I can
only get it to run on the NT5 beta.  My NT4 machine also has IE4
installed, perhaps that's the problem?  

BTW, I agree that if you're not planning on supporting 95/98, you
should call it XGSNT.

Anyways, thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work!!!  

Dan