Disklavier

THANK YOU!!!!

I have tried for months to get the nice people at Giebler to help
DEBUG this fatal error when running W2K.

I'll be glad to test this FIX over the week-end when I get home
off the road.

--Aaron in San Francisco




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  |       Subject:  Re: [disklavier] USING GIEBLER UNDER XP                                      |
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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



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