New ETKA and the nasty Hardlock error

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

David,

Sorry I guess I didn't explain this properly. Basically, VMware is a
program you install on your machine that simulates a computer. You can
install whatever you want on that simulated computer, including Windows
98. One nice perk of this is that if the simulated computer crashes, you
just reset the VMware program, not your whole computer. While waiting for
it to reboot, you can minimize VMware and read the scirocco list ;)

The problems with ETKA are due to (AFAIK, don't flame me if I'm not
getting this right) it being run on newer versions of Windows (2000, XP,
etc) than it was written for. The backwards compatiblity in Windows is not
perfect, so there are problems. Anyway, with VMware you can actually run
ETKA on 98 as it was intended, on this simulated machine.

Sort-of clear now?

-Toby

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, David Utley wrote:

> Toby,
>    I know little about computers, but can you explain why you thinnk the
> VMware would work?  I know that windows is sh!t, but I like to try to
> understand specifically why before I make changes...
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Regards,
> David Utley
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> Quoting "T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu>:
>
> > I just wanna throw out this suggestion for the numerous people who have
> > had problems running ETKA under 2000/XP..
> >
> > Get ahold of a copy of VMware for Windows (www.vmware.com) and install
> > Windows 98 in it, then install ETKA under that.
> >
> > I don't even use Windows (I'm a Linux guy) but I run 98 in VMware for
> > Linux in order to use ETKA and other windows-only crap and it works great.
> > It's just like having a second machine on my desk, but I can switch
> > between the two machines seemlessly with the same keyboard and mouse.
> >
> > VMware doesn't actually emulate the whole CPU, it just sets up the
> > environment to run the software natively.. so there's a very low
> > performance hit (actually, under Linux, some people have observed
> > a performance /increase/ over native Windows)
> >
> > It's very easy to use and essentially gives you a computer within your
> > computer on which you can install any OS you please (you can even layer
> > virtual machines.. ie. run Linux within Windows within Linux within
> > Windows, etc). There's support for networks, CD burning, DVD drives, etc.
> > You can also suspend and resume, so you don't have to wait for the virtual
> > machine to boot up.
> >
> > A very nice piece of software. Sure, you'll take up a couple hundred megs
> > of disk space for the disk image but it might be worth avoiding all the
> > hardlock/incompatibility frustration people seem to be having.
> >
> > -Toby
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, calimus wrote:
> >
> > > Okies, I got the download, unrared it and installed it.  It fired up just
> > > fine after a reboot.  Let me look at the list of cars, but when I try to
> > > bring up any of the cars, I get the hardlock error.  Tried running the
> > > hardlock.exe but that didn't cure the problem.  So, does anyone know how
> > to
> > > fix this issue under Win2k or does it need to be run under Win95/98?
> > >
> > > Also, I'd like to setup my BT as a seed for those that still need to
> > > download it, any tips on how the hell to do that as well.  I'm new to BT
> > and
> > > franky haven't looked at any of the documentation today.  I know I should
> > > RTFM but I'm just lazy tonight.
> > >
> > >
> > > William Snyder
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