No.1277
Greetings Terry, fellow bondman of Christ, can you run an SHA1 or SHA2 type hashing algorithm on TempleOSCD.iso and tell me what you get? Much appreciated.
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No.1278
I release new versions with minor changes all the time – changes are usually localized so the risk of a serious bug is minimal. For example, I've been working on the on-line help a little bit, lately.
Every 10-30 days I increment the subversion number, when enough changes have accumulated to merit a new subversion.
It is to my advantage to tell the download sites that I have a new version as often as possible for the added attention and downloads it produces. 10-14 days is about as frequent as I can get away with. Lately, however, I ran out of ideas for changes.
I guess I could print a SHA1 alongside the download, but my version numbers are pretty meaningless, so it would just apply to the download at the time you downloaded it.
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No.1279
Here's a troubleshooting guide:
1) If it is not a 64-bit machine, it won't run and I hope it gives a message but I'm not sure. Some people try it in emulation, but I hate that because its miserably slow and gives a bad impression.
2) If running in a virtual environment, some people give it less than 512 Meg. It will print a warning and keep running if it has about 256Meg. If you give it 64Meg, it might just crash with no message.
3) If it asks you for CDROM I/O Port numbers I'd guess it's 50/50 odds it will work. You need to look in Windows System Information under SATA port number and try all combinations. In Linux you need to check >lspci -v
4) With a virtual environment, you can move the hard drive and CDROM to various IDE locations. I think HardDrive should be primary IDE master and CDROM should be secondary master, but it should work if set to others.
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It only supports "PC Speaker" sound. Laptops frequently don't have a PC Speaker.
VMware Workstation 8 and Player 4 have PC Speaker support, but not later versions.
VirtualBox has no support for PC Speaker.
QEMU has emulation of PC Speaker but not all ways of using QEMU make it work. QEMU timing causes songs to sound a little shitty.
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No.1280
My experience is that file corruption shown by xsums are never the problem. It's 99.9% probable that if it crashes, it's not file corruption and there is no remedy. I can't really debug by sending info back and forth. PC hardware is very diverse and to do an actual professional works-everywhere operating system, I'd need massive test rigs.
However, running in a virtual environment like VMware, VirtualBox or QEMU creates a far less diverse situation to deal with and it is reasonable for it to mostly work.
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No.1281
>>1280in other words it has a million reasons to not work and file corruption is the least of my worries. Perhaps you have a particularly bad network and do get file corruption? Otherwise, that's not it.
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