From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 03:49:25 -0400 From: Borja Marcos borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Subject: CD-ROM music Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25426c9c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950919074925.a50O1ZuqwZXMWXd6RFsVkdg270fAZfym7j36lUESjCQ@z> > > Speaking of play-value, has anyone gotten themselves far enough > out of VGA hell to try the sky catalog or the geographic/road > databases? Yes, I have tried them :-) The bin/aux/mapd program wasn't included in binary form (at least for 386, didn't check the others). After compiling it, I tried "mapdemo" and some of the maps weren't produced. Sometimes it said "Cannot mount; no resources" but I think it's a memory problem. (I have 8 MB but with a 40 MB partition - edited "prep" to have a big partition). Sometimes the program crashed. After that, I started to draw maps with it. At first, as I'm only a "map user" (mainly topographic) I had to fight with the parameters for the different projections, but at last it produced some nice maps. It would be great to obtain high resolution data for the mountain zones in the Basque Country to produce my own custom maps :-) (I will try to get it) And perhaps my caving group will use it to produce cave maps. (We measure the caves and then draw maps). The road database works very well (I had no problems with it). Only need a plane and a GPS to use it :-) Some time ago I heard that to flew to a Unix conference using a portable with Plan 9 "connected to the flight instruments". So you used games/road in your plane? The sky database is also very nice. It works without problems (only tried to map some constellations) other than lack of memory. These programs make a good set for impressing friends. Regarding the VGA hell... I guess that programming such horrible devices has been more dificult than designing the OS... I have installed the system at 800x600x8. I was unable to get it working at 1024x768x?. (My monitor needs interlacing).o Regards, Borja. -- ******************************************************************* Borja Marcos | Preferred: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11, 1. izq. | Others: borjamar@mx.sarenet.es 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) | 100015.3502@compuserve.com SPAIN | CIS: 100015,3502 ****************************************************************** (c)1995 by the author. This message cannot be transferred to the Microsoft(tm) Network.