<t>Great. Glad it went well. It was cool meeting David and Daniel.<br/>
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David... expect some "noise" from me soon.<br/>
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Who was the other computer wargaming company there? I didn't notice any others.<br/>
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Hopefully there will be more computer wargaming companies at next years ...

<t>When I am in campaign mode at the purchasing screen in SPWaW7.1, the whole laptop shutsdown, after about a minute or two. <br/>
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Still can play a SPWaW scenario with no problem, can play TOAW for a few hours without a shutdown.<br/>
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It is a problem with the Toshiba Satellite series of ...

<t>I signed up despite the lack of any exhibiting Computer Wargaming Companies.<br/>
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I asked the organizers about the lack of computer folk compared to previous years; they told me they sent out applications to all the major computer wargaming companies, but noone signed up.<br/>
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The War ...

<t>Ahhh, a best bassist thread on a grognard site.... nice!<br/>
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Chris Squire of course.<br/>
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We musn't forget Jack Casady.<br/>
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Props to JPJ and Entwhistle.<br/>
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Jannick Top of Magma. Very powerful.<br/>
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Flea and Les Claypool from more recent times.<br/>
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Thanks for the heads-up on the EBay BC2 listing. I've placed a bid.

<r>The link is the same one from earlier in this thread.<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...fmfdgll.0&ct=SB"><s>[url]</s>http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...fmfdgll.0&ct=SB<e>[/url]</e></URL><br/>
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neither link appears to be working now, but the problem is listed ...

The fix listing for the 1.9 Bios upgrade doesn't mention the random shutdown problem. I found that problem described in another list and that's what referenced the BIOS upgrade.

It was definitely a BIOS problem with the Toshiba laptop, upgrading it to version 1.9 (it should be at least 1.8) fixed the problem with SPWaW.

<r>Found the following on Toshiba's website.<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=165240&moid=148315&BV_SessionID=@@@@0696884743.1023739026@@@@&BV_EngineID=dadcefhejeiibfekcghcfmfdgll.0&ct=SB"><s>[url]</s><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.csd.toshiba.com ...

Yes, I tried 800x600 resolution as part of what I was testing. It crashed then as well.

As far as the Toshiba angle, I haven't had any problems with any other older Windows games, including TAOW.

Thanks.

<t>Unfortunately it continues to shut the system down, both with the audio acceleration turned completely off, and with all the sound effects turned off. <br/>
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I can recreate the problem by alternating right and left mouse clicks on various units. It will usually shut down after the third set ...

<t>The Toshiba laptop is using the Ali Audio Accelerator for sound.<br/>
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I tried running Mech.exe in both Win95 and Win98 comp modes, but it still shut down after 5 minutes or so. Both times I noticed it happened after right-clicking to bring up a unit menu, or left clicking to select a unit ...

<r>I am a drummer/synth player. Play in the American spacerock band Quarkspace, and the electronica outfit Church of Hed. <br/>
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Music, wargaming and sportsgaming are always at conflict with my time.<br/>
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With the talk about bassists on a wargaming site, it would remiss not to mention ...

<t>Trying to run SPWaw7.1 freshly downloaded yesterday.<br/>
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I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Laptop:<br/>
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Celeron Processor 1.1Ghz, 256Meg RAM. XP Home. Trident Video Accelerator Cyberblade XP Ai1 ver 6.4.<br/>
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It only appears to shut down when the game map screen is displayed; it ...