On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:06:46PM -0700, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> well. this is not correct. it seems like on the
> new pentium3 (and i guess pentium4) and amd athlon thunderbird there isn't
> a full back compatibility.
>
> I tried to run the old and famous qtext5.5 on P3s and AMDs and it didn't
> work, shouted some strange error message about address 200 or something like
> that. when i copied the program to an old computer (p200mmx & 486) it
> worked like charm.
So far for Borland thinking ahead when they designed the CRT unit in
Turbo Pascal :)
Basically, they calculate the time length used by the delay() function,
but starting from some speeds, the function began overflowing. You can
search the net to find patches for that problem.
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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