At 05:55 PM 9/22/00 -0700, Doug Brandon wrote:
>Talk about last minute setup! I'm trying to use RITTY 4.14 and NA 10.49,
>but NA crashes with "Error 64 occurred in module NA1049 at address
>blah:blah" after the initial splash screen. Any ideas? I'm running it in
>a DOS Window in Windows 98, but also tried it with a clean boot into DOS
>and got the same thing. For now I'm running them separately in two DOS
>windows.
Error 64 means "Bad Filename". I don't think this is correct, but more
likely some sort of memory management problem. I have virtually no Win98
experience, and none with RITTY 4.14. I have no idea how much memory the
RITTY takes, or how much is left for NA after RITTY is loaded. My first
advice would be to look at how much memory is free after RITTY is loaded,
and also try loading NA in RTTY contest configuration (but with RITTY not
loaded) and do a MEMORY command (i.e., type MEMORY in the callsign field of
the logging screen). Two numbers appear that the bottom of the
screen. Ignore the DS number, but HEAP is the amount of unused DOS memory
left after NA loads. For example, on my Dell P-200, Heap=35474 with NA
loaded normally. You might also try the "-C" command line switch (inhibits
use of XMS memory).
I don't mean to be glib, but you're really on your own running this stuff
under Win98. Each succeeding version of Windows has less and less
compatibility with "real" DOS programs. RITTY is particularly bad in this
regard as well. For example, it cannot be run under WinNT, and even older
OS than Win98.
Some day we're all gonna be scraping around for old DOS disks...
Dave Pruett, K8CC
DATOM Engineering
datom@contesting.com
http://datom.contesting.com
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