--- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:04:37 -0700 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: G4 Powerbook + publisher's software problem (TBob) >Cc: [log in to unmask] ------------------ We are considering Deux Mondes, which has audio CDs, a good CD-ROM, and a "Cahier d'exercices" (electronic workbook) on CD. My problem with this is that I cannot get the electronic workbook to do anything but freeze my G4 Powerbook, running OS 9.1 and with an Internet Explorer 5.1 (all seems to match specs). I did register as directed by the product, but I can get no farther than a click on an individual exercise before all comes to a stop. Please note that I do go several levels before I freeze and have to execute an emergency reboot. Actually, when the CD-ROM is inserted, it opens my Internet Explorer 5.1.4 (4231) automatically, and if I close it to look for the "startmac.htm" file (as per direction on the package), all I find is an "automac.htm" file. My machine seems to labor unnecessarily to open what is essentially an html file from the desktop. When I try the same software on 2 different vitages of G3 iMacs in the lab, a 400 MHz running OS 9.0.4 and a 500 MHz running 9.2.2, it all works great. When I go to my colleague's office and his G4 tower running OS 9.1 and the same IE browser, the software runs fine (so much for platform and OS problems). I have made further comparisons between my G4 Powerbook and the tower G4 of my colleague using my system profiler. His Mac OS ROM is 7.9.1, while mine is a 7.5.1. Also, though we both have PowerPC G4 processors, his machine speed is "533 Mhz", while mine is "400 MHz (300-400 MHz)". The software jacket says I can run this also with Netscape 6.0, so I tried it with my 6.2 and it crashes the same way in the same place. I am stumped. Am I dealing with a speed problem or should I be worried about an extension conflect? My little mind cannot seem to wrap around it. Any advice? If I cannot run it on my machine, I cannot be of any help to students...won't be able to incorporate activities into tests, etc. TBob -- ========================================================== Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml ========================================================== Robert D. Peckham, PhD Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html