 | |  | | ![]() Ok, I made a boot disk for hactar to use on my old whore of a '98, but when I launch it and play around a bit it eventually simply freezes. The arrow indicating you can scroll still flashes, so it must be being refreshed, but I can't scroll or move the highlighter or anything around. I'm using the Text shell/version. Any help? By the way, love it so far lol.
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Quoted from Cryo 'Hactar Lives!'
As I mentioned before, Hactar becomes unresponsive to input after running natively on this system for a short amount of time. While everything else appears to function correctly, including the graphical mode at up to 1600x1200 resolution, it stops accepting key presses after a short while, ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes. The clock continues to tick away, but no input is recognized. Of course, this doesn't occur in Virtual PC.
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| written by Ponche on May 31, 2007 15:17 |
 | |  | | ![]() Yes, that's a nasty bug which happens just on certain machines. But we need Alex to remove it from the Hactar code. Can you please specify your PC specifications for later reference Medeival? | |  | |  |
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| | | | ![]() Oh wow uhm... *Goes to check* 'My computer' properties says:
AMDAuthentic
AMD K6 3D Processor
64.00 MBytes Ram
Its a 32 bit cpu. | | | | |
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| written by Alex on Jun 01, 2007 22:43 |
 | |  | | ![]() Not to sound nasty here, but don't worry too much, as I'm intentioned to discontinue Hactar. The problem is in the interrupt processor, which is probably too slow to manage a large amount of real-mode to flat-mode switches to provide synchronized callbacks to what it calls "tick handlers". Most of its kernel's code, corrected and optimized, though, will be alive in the near-future "Pcbios" run-time module for Linoleum, allowing for a Lino app to boot a PC.
My future projects involve bulding an OS on top of Lino and of that kernel, while Hactar will probably be just a memory... but you lose very little, in my opinion. | |  | |  |
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   | |  | | ![]() What about the isometric one though? | |  | |  |
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| written by Tom on Jun 02, 2007 05:14 |
 | |  | | ![]() Alex came back! 
Hello!
Anyway, I always thought Hactar was very interesting, and it's nice to know that it will live on in the Lino microkernel... | |  | |  |
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| | | | ![]() GVP, he's referring Hactar, not Avatar. : )
I'm interested in trying the bootable kernel once it becomes available. A lot of cool things could be done with that, and it could even be possible to recreate and expand a Hactar-type interface on top of it. | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() Oops I always get them mixed up. Sorry. I am not GVP, and you know that. I had an Idea of an even worse name, but I won't tell you, of course . | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() Hey, I know your welcome thread's title originally read GVP, so that's what I'm sticking with, Granpire Viking Person. : ) | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() Oh well, I guess I can't control that . So now I've got to find YOU a name!   | | | | |
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