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Help needed with Aviator.1.8 demo on IPC!!!

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From: Alex Villamil
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:46
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Hi.  After much aggravation, I've finally decided to post.

I'm new to Sun Workstations so please forgive me if I seem
ignorant of things obvious to you.
Let me tell you what I've done so that you can understand my
situation:

On the server (sunlab1):
sunlab1# whoami
root
sunlab1# setenv AVIATOR_HOME ...
sunlab1# install_aviator BIGFILE
...
...
...       (various setenvs)

Our lab consists of an IPX server and a few IPCs.  So, to run
aviator on the IPX:

sunlab1# echo "0x29a3e?w 2000" | adb -w
/usr/games/aviator/bin/aviator

Though the patch says I should get: 0x29a3e:        0x2005  =
   0x2000

I come up with:
0x29a3e:	0x2000 =	0x2000

This really doesn't seem like a big deal because aviator does
manage to run on the IPX (which, by the way has a monochrome
display.  The clients have color displays.  The IPX has 16mgs
RAM and IPCs 8mgs RAM.)

So, aviator is cool on monochrome, but I want color!!
So, on one of the clients:

sun6# rlogin sunlab1
...
sunlab1# setenv DISPLAY sun6:0
sunlab1# aviator

And then it hangs.  What gives?

Oh, another thing.  On the IPX I had to run OW3 instead of X11
to get it to run (otherwise the harddrive starts thrashing).

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  Is there too little
RAM?  Was aviator not meant for the IPC?

*Please* help me!!!

Alex
av5410@sjfc.edu
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From: av5410@sjfc.UUCP (Alex Villamil)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,rec.games.misc
Subject: Help needed with Aviator.1.8 demo on IPC!!!
Keywords: aviator IPC
Message-ID: <2290@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:46:38 GMT
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Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
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