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Re: USING GIEBLER UNDER XP

2003-11-11 by midi_magic2000

Hi

Depending what it is you want Giebler to do for you I have a program 
that may help.

Midi Magic



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, aaron.zornes@m... wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
> 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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