Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

One program to fix the "runtime error 200" is Robert and Marek's TSR tool,
which we include in FreeDOS 1.3:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/tp7p5fix.html


But as Eric said, you can find lots of tools on the Internet to fix this
too. Or you can run SLOWDOWN as another workaround.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 2:30 AM Eric Auer <e....@jp...> wrote:

>
> Hi! Runtime error 200 usually is an overflow in timing
> code of Borland or Turbo Pascal, if you search the web
> you will find various tools which patch it or work it
> around :-) The overflow happens because your computer
> is too fast. So you can also try to slow it down, e.g.
> using FDAPM SPEEDn where n is a digit (but that might
> crash, be prepared to hard-reset or power cycle if so)
> or using various "SLOWDOWN" resident tools for DOS. As
> runtime error 200 is widespread, as said there also are
> tools which to either load as TSR (they will patch the
> affected code in RAM) or can be used to modify affected
> EXE files on disk (remember to backup the original EXE).
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
>
> > Tyrian
> >
> > tyrian.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0006:374c
> > setup.exe -  Runtime error 200 at 0002:24ED
> >
> > Fuzzy
> >
> > fuzzy.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B
> > main.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B
>
>