Direct X Caverot - test version available

[Martin Ellis]

Olly

Works on my Windows 98 4.10.1998 Pentium II machine.
I don't know when I can try it out on the problematical NT computer.

Martin




-----Original Message-----
From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
To: Martin Ellis <mjellis@tesco.net>; survex@survex.com <survex@survex.com>
Date: 04 December 2000 11:45
Subject: Direct X Caverot - test version available


>Olly Betts writes:
>>I'm going to try to get a version of caverot working which uses directx.
>>This should allow a fast, high resolution display on Windows NT and 2000.
>
>Of course it should also work on Windows 95, 98, etc.
>
>I've compiled up a version, but can't test it on a real Windows box.  I've
>tried it under wine (the windows emulator) and it didn't work, but wine
>warned about various unsupported stuff being used so this probably doesn't
>mean much.
>
>So if you've got a windows box, could you try this out.  Please make sure
>you don't have any unsaved work, as there's an outside chance it might
crash
>the machine:
>
>http://www.survex.com/software/test/wincvrot.zip
>
>Run it from the command line (or the "Run" dialog box) as with the DOS
>version, and it should create a full screen directx display with the usual
>DOS caverot interface.
>
>Please let me know whether it works or not, and what version of windows
>you're using.
>
>Cheers,
>Olly
>