PIC error

PIC error

[Raphael Crawford-Marks]

Hello,

While indulging a wave of nostalgia for DOS-based games, I was suddenly
overwhelmed by the urge to play UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka X-Com: UFO Defense).  I
checked out all the UFO-related software that's being developed (UFO2000, UFO:
Alien Invasion, etc) but found them all to be lacking.  I needed to play the
original.  So, I found a copy of the game.  But of course, I needed to find a
way to get it to work on linux.

Enter dosemu.  This program is great!  Quick download, quick make/install, and
I'm up and running.  I fire up UFO and lo, the intro sequence comes up, with
sound!  Wonderful!  Here's where I run into trouble.  After the intro sequence,
the console starts spewing out the following error message, at a rate that
significantly slows down the game.

ERROR: PIC: pic_ilevel=0xd pic_isr=0x0

and occasionally

ERROR: PIC0: ilevel=20 != pic_ilevel=d, pic_isr=0

Aside from the slowdown, this doesn't seem to affect gameplay or the emulator at
all.  I've played the game for about 10 minutes, but the slowdown from the
emulator spitting out these error messages as fast as it can is just too annoying.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix the error?  If not, is there a flag to
suppress the output from dosemu?

Many Thanks,

Raphael


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Raphael Crawford-Marks
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Re: PIC error

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote:
> ERROR: PIC: pic_ilevel=0xd pic_isr=0x0
> Does anyone know what I can do to fix the error?
Is it always reproduceable, or
just sometimes?
Please produce a -D9+r log, open
a bug-report on a sourceforge
tracker of dosemu
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=49784&atid=457447
and attach that log to it. Also
please specify the URL where is
that game can be downloaded (if
at all), and we'll see where's
the problem is coming from.

> If not, is there a flag to
> suppress the output from dosemu?
Just comment out that messages
in file pic.c for now before it
is fixed.