My BBS has been very sluggish on the old PII450. I find some people give up waiting for the BBS to start after connecting. Tonight I moved the BBS onto my old desktop computer (P4 1.5 GHz), the one that couldn't run Vista because none of its hardware is supported. I formatted the computer and put XP Home on it, then simply copied the BBS over. The bbs is running much faster now. The problem I have is the old Runtime Error 200 for door games written in Turbo Pascal is back. There is some timing feature built into TP7 that loops x times for something? On faster computers (such as PII233) this did not work and caused a divide by zero error (RTE 200). I've been running a TSR program that fixes the bug on the fly while TP7 programs are executing. It works great on my old PII450 but I guess my 1.5 GHz machine is again too fast, so the error is back. I don't know what to do now. Some of my favorite doors on the BBS such as EZ-ROM, Planets TEOS and Super Liners no longer work. I've posted a message on the BBS_DOORS and MUFFIN (maximus bbs) echos on FidoNet. Hopefully someone knows what to do. All I can find on google are patches and the TSR which only work on older PII computers.
Runtime Error 200 is back
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Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
