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In article <323d5d83@ralf> Ralf Brown <ralf@telerama.lm.com> writes:

>You're both wrong.  It's neither a buggy CPU nor the EXEPACK "Packed file
>is corrupt" bug.  The Pentium-90 is simply too fast for the program!  Since
>games need to run at the same speed no matter how fast the CPU, they include
>a speed-detection routine at startup.  In the present case, the program is
>clearly counting the number of timer ticks it takes to run a fixed number
>of iterations of some action.  On the P5-90, it is finishing in less than
>one timer tick, and thus trying to divide by zero.  If it didn't bomb out,
>it would be unplayably fast....

>The solution: try putting the Pentium into "slow" or "deturbo" mode.

If your Pentium, like many, doesn't have a "turbo" button, you can fake
it by going into the CMOS setup program and disabling any cache.  Don't
forget to re-enable it when you're done with the game, though!

There are also freeware programs out there that enable/disable the cache
from the command line.

raster@indirect.com