Disklavier

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Sheldon Deluty wrote:

> to the best of my limited understanding, giebler does not work under windows
> xp because the processor runs too fast
>
> but there is a shareware program available called CPU KILLER
>
> the website is:  http://www.cpukiller.com/products/cpukiller/
>
> this program allows you to manually and controllably slow your CPU speed
> down to whatever speed you desire, which appears to allow Giebler and other
> DOS based programs and old games to run on new machines, even those with xp
> installed as the OS


There is another solution - you can patch the Giebler .exe files so
that they are able to run on faster CPUs.  The patch fixes a bug in
Turbo Pascal (which the Giebler programs were apparently written in).

Download the TPPATCH utility from
   http://dp70.dyndns.org/tmp/tppatch.zip

Extract tppatch.exe from the ZIP file.  Then process each of the .exe
files in the Giebler package by doing:

   tppatch ydm.exe
   tppatch domsmf.exe

etc.

(This does modify the files, so make sure you have your original Giebler
disks available just in case anything goes wrong.)

I know the tppatch utility runs OK under DOS and Windows 95/98/ME
and I've used it successfully.

It is trickier to run under NT/2000/XP.  There, you need to do:

   debug tppatch ydm.exe
   (you're now at a '-' prompt)
   g
   q
   (you're now back at the normal prompt)

for each file.

Hope this helps.

Mark Fontana