Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com
From: "Wayne K. Werner" <wkwerner@admin.con2.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_studio
Subject: Starting 3D Studio
Date: 14 Jun 1997 22:47:24 GMT
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Hi guys,

I just got my NY membership a week or so ago and have been very busy trying
to get all of the tools up and running.  In particular, I have been
spending an inordinant amount of time trying to get 3ds to run at all.

I decided to get 3ds up and running in pure clean MS-DOS mode (I am using
Windows95) and have had virtually no luck.  When I run the software, I get
the authorization countdown warning.  When I click OK, the screen goes
blank, and I am locked up.

I have tried making a super clean, nothing extra bootup, but to no avail. 
Sometimes, the software will come up... but this appears to happen
infrequently and have no relationship to my config.sys or autoexec.bat, as
the next time I boot, the system will not run.  Once I got a string of
about 10 times that the software started.  I thought I had something, but
then, changing nothing, it stopped coming up again.

When I try to use the supplied pif to run it under a fullscreen dos
session, it fails with a message saying that the -REALBREAK flag is no
supported by this version of DPMI.

I am a wits end, and have invested way too many hours on this, when what I
really want to do is to start getting my feet wet on the console already. 
If anyone can help, I will be very grateful!

Thanks, Wayne