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From: plushboy AT green DOT eggs DOT and DOT spam DOT maine DOT rr DOT com (Daniel T. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: help! FPU emulation worries... (RHIDE?)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 03:29:42 GMT
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On Sun, 18 May 1997 14:25:09 GMT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:
>
>On Thu, 15 May 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:
>
>> > Or is there any way for me to simulate the software FPU even when
>> > I have a 486 DX?
>> 
>> SET 387=n
>
>Last time I tried this on a 486DX, I couldn't make it behave as if there
>were no FPU.  I wrote a small program that was linked without an emulator,
>and expected it to barf when I set 387=n and rename emu387.dxe, but it
>happily ran to completion... 

<DELURK>

	That's odd.  I upgraded my CPU from an Intel 486SX-66 to a
Cyrix-p150 a while ago, and I got tons of errors (well, actually, one
error repeatedly) later when I tried Quake.  It turned out that Quake
would refuse to recognize my now-present FPU and would refuse to run.
After much hair-pulling  (and an embarrassing amount of yelling "I
have a f**&$^ing FPU, what is the REAL problem????"), I found the
solution right in front of me: my old autoexec.bat which set 387=n
(which I hadn't bothered to remove).  No flames, please, for missing
something so obvious.
	Quake ran fine after that, or at least as fine as Quake gets
running on a Cyrix processor.  :-(
	So, anyway, try Quake with 387=n.  I'd be damn surprised if it
works.  I haven't tried any homebrewn progs with 387=n to see if it
triggers the emulator, so maybe Quake uses a different algorithm for
387 detection (or the emu library explicitly ignores the 387
environment variable and performs a hardware check anyway).  As
always, YMMV.
	Hope this helps, and wasn't an utter waste of time and
bandwidth for all involved.

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