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[Howard Eisenberger <howarde AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:09:14PM +0000, Neo Sze Wee wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:34:15AM +0000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> > > 
> > > If I have a very old 486 with 4 ram 
> > 
> > BL1 will work on that machine.  
> > 
> > > will I be able to run links 2.1? 
> > 
> > We have been running links 2.1.9 on BL2.  I would be 
> > surprised if it worked on BL1.
> > 
> > > I asked this because I have tried several compilations of 
> > > links 2.x using svgalib and none of them work on console. 
> > > I have all the libraries you mentioned here. What can
> > > be wrong?
> > 
> > The svgalib in BL1 is very old and very small.  It only 
> 
> I am not using BL1 but something equivalent to BL2.
> 
> If I am using the latest svgalib and I still have problem with links
> 2.x, what do you think is the problem? The problem can be: links 2.x
> does not work at all; graphich garbage is diaplayed, sometimes with a
> big cursor but totally unresponsive to further comman; or nothing at
> all, I have to reboot. Maybe my commuter does not have the chip? But
> yet I can use zgv.

I haven't tried the static version yet, but I compiled links 2.1pre7 
(svgalib, shared libs) Slack 7.1 on a P133 with 32mg ram. I also have 
a Slack 7.1 partition on a 486sx with 8mg ram. It works on the P133 
with mem=8M, but when I tried to run it on the 486sx, I got a big 
cursor on a black screen and it seemed to be frozen, although when I 
let it go for 10 or 15 minutes it finally loaded, but was so slow that 
all I could do was "q" to get out.

Zgv works (more or less) on both PC's. If I get any further with this, 
I'll let you know.

Howard E.