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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@netmagic.net>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.problems.pc
Subject: Re: almost-there frustration
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:44:04 -0700
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I had similar frustrating problems like you do now, but this is how
I eventually ended up setting up my system:

  -  I copied (from the Yaroze PC CD-ROM) the "PSX" directory to
     "c:\programs\psx" and the GNU stuff to "c:\programs\gnu".
  -  I added to my AUTOEXEC.BAT file the DJSETUP.BAT by calling it:

	call c:\programs\psx\djsetup.bat

  -  I then edited the DJSETUP.BAT to make sure that all referenced
     directories were correct.  This should solve the path
     accessibility problem you have.
  -  I also went into the PSX\BIN\ directory and made sure that I
     could run SIOCONS.EXE and get the ">>" prompt.  If you get that,
     then you know that you've got your COM and IRQ stuff set up
     correctly.  ^_^
  -  After rebooting, I just typed at the C:\> prompt "SIOCONS" and
     everything worked fine.

Good luck...
- e!

Jason Csesznegi wrote:
> 
> Hello, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out with _finally_
> getting my Yaroze to work.  I have done some programming and stuff
> before, so hopefully this summer after all the setup is correct things
> will go smoother.
> 
> My problem is that, after finally curing my errors with all of the setup
> and graphics and sound utilities, I can't get SIOCONS to work. If I try
> to run a game, or quick-start thing, if I do it exactly like the book
> start up guide says, I always get the message "Bad Command or Filename",
> which makes sense, because siocons is not in the directory the book says
> to run it from.
> 
> However, if I go to the directory it's in, "d:\yaroze\psx\bin\",
> (actaully I run it from windows) and execute SIOCONS, siocons loads fine
> and when I go to auto (F3) and try to run a sample game, which I think
> would work if I just type where the auto file is (ex.
> d:\yaroze\wrk\terra_b2\auto), it seems like it will load, and my TV
> screen says "Binary Data Transfer - BWR", but my computer screen says
> "Can't open "maketmd.dat"", "auto commands all stop".  I know that
> maketmd.dat is game data, why can't it open it?
> 
> Also, what are all those funny siocons.his files?
> 
> All help will be much appreciated. :)

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- e!
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