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MSS03USA 2006South Africa 2008 Last updated: July 18th, 1999(Uploaded May 17th, 1998) Runtime Error 200 running a Pascal program on fast systems (PII 266+) Contents of this document General information Programmers information Programmers Option 1: Enhancing the Delay-routine Programmers Option 2: Removing
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the Delay-routine Optional replacement delayloop Users Patch-program General information The Runtime Error dos runtime error 200 200 (Division by zero) bug is not part of the Pentium Errors. It's a mistake Borland made. The initialization freedos runtime error 200 part of the CRT unit has a calibration loop for the procedure DELAY. The resulting value of a counter depends on the speed of the cpu. This counter has an overflow on
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high speed cpu's, including Pentium II 266 Mhz and faster. Actually it is the same bug that on earlier processors caused Delay to be inaccurate, that now causes programs to fail with a runtime error if they use the CRT unit! Some (earlier?) compiler versions mysteriously seem to go free of this bug - Delphi doesn't have them, for instance, and Turbo Pascal
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6 seems to work too. Please note: I take no responsibility for the potential damage people may do to their RTL's, working programs or vital data while using the instructions in this document. Keep backups of the appropriate files! (and then some...) Programmers As a programmer you have several different options. First of all you can disable the delay-routine completely. If you need a delay routine you can use the one found in this document, you can create your own, or you can find another one somewhere on the web. Another solution is to change the Delay-routine so it will work on todays fast systems. This solution found in this document should push the problem about 10 years into the future if we assume that Moores Law is correct. If you're having Borland Pascal, you also have the sources of the runtime library. Just make the following changes and recompile the complete runtime library. A MAKEFILE is included with the sources. If you have Turbo Pascal only, it's a bit more complicated. You'll need the sources of unit CRT. At least the files CRT.PAS, CRT.ASM and SE.A
Sign in Pricing Blog Support Search GitHub This repository Watch 0 Star 1 Fork 0 Defacto2/defacto2.net Code Issues 10 Pull requests 0 Projects 4 Wiki Pulse Graphs Troubleshoot runtime error 200 Ben Garrett edited this page Apr 10, 2015 · 2 revisions Pages 11 Home Can I batch download the files How to run DOS programs Troubleshoot d3drm.dll Troubleshoot npmod32.dll Troubleshoot runtime error 200 Troubleshoot shrinker.err Wanted uploads What are DOS Programs What are RAR 7z ZIP ACE files What are the best tools for viewing and editing NFO DIZ files Clone this wiki http://mtech.dk/thomsen/program/pasbug.php locally Clone in Desktop Troubleshoot - How do I fix a Runtime error 200? Symptom: A legacy MS-DOS program crashed while leaving the cryptic error message. Solution A runtime error 200 message usually occurs with old DOS applications written in Turbo and Borland Pascal. Turbo Pascal had a timing bug that would cause its complied programs to crash when they were operating on machines running https://github.com/Defacto2/defacto2-website/wiki/Troubleshoot-runtime-error-200 at 200Mhz or faster. It is known as the CRT unit issue and can be fixed by applying a patch to the effected application. Otherwise you can run the application in DOSBox which can artificially slow down the speed of the emulated DOS session. If you wish to patch the application we have created a guide to help you through it. Though this is only recommended for people experienced with DOS or the Windows command prompt. Download UNP 4.11 A Turbo Pascal decompression program. Download CRTFix 1.16 A CRT bug patching program. Create a temporary directory. MKDIR C:\TPATCH Unzip both downloaded packages into the temporary directory. PKUNZIP TurboPascal-Unpack.zip C:\TPATCH PKUNZIP crtfix16.zip C:\TPATCH In our example we are going to patch defacto.exe which is the binary from an early Defacto magazine that suffers from this bug. So run the UNP program to decompress the binary. UNP DEFACTO.EXE Once the decompression is complete run the crtfix program to patch the binary. CRTFIX DEFACTO.EXE That is it, if the crtfix returned a Fixing code... Fixed. response then the binary is now patched and in future those annoying runtime error 200 messages should be gone. Defacto2 (CC
encounter this Runtime Error. Runtime Error 200 Symptoms Like any other Runtime Error, Runtime Error 200 lets itself be well known via a pop up alert. This “bug” seems to pop up in DOS http://wiki-errors.com/runtime-error-200-%E2%80%93-the-pascal-error/ based programs that were faster than 200MHz and could make an already slow machine even http://pedrowa.weba.sk/docs/Delphi/Pascal/Fixes%2520for%2520Pascal%2520'Run%2520Time%2520Error%2520200'/download.html slower and/or inoperable. Runtime Error 200 Causes The Runtime Error 200 problem is generated in the initialization routine’s internal workings. What happens is a code will actually measures the “running time” of what is called a busy wait loop. While doing so it calculates how many times a call must be made for a delay in the correct runtime error amount. When the computer moves too fast and the loop takes zero ticks and the calculations come up as “Division by Zero’ or Runtime Error 200. Solving Runtime Error 200 There are two ways in which you can go about solving Runtime Error 200 problems. The first way is to use a patch in order to get the program to work, but this is risky. If you do this be sure you are runtime error 200 using a reputable website in order to get the patch as some patches are really nothing more than viruses in disguise. Another solution is to run a TSR, or Terminate and Stay Resident, utility. Steps: Run the TP75.EXE and allow loading into TSR memory. Run your DOS program and avoid the error message. Repeat steps one and two each time you access DOS as the TSR will not be active unless you load it each time. See Also Personal tools Namespaces Article Search Our Products Main Page Applications .Net Framework Error AOL Browser Errors Installer Errors Internet Explorer Macro Errors Media Player MS Outlook Network Errors Outlook Express Windows Live Articles DLL Errors Exe Errors Ocx Errors Operating Systems Windows 7 Windows Others Windows Vista Windows XP TuneUp Tips Browser Tuneup Computer Tuneup Pages About Us Cat List Support Contact Us Help Center How to Uninstall Refund Policy Legal Disclaimers Privacy policy End User License Agreement (EULA) Terms of use Copyright©2012wiki-errors.com.All rights reserved. Disclaimer: This website is not affiliated with Wikipedia and should not be confused with the website of Wikipedia, which can be found at Wikipedia.org. This website should be used for informational purposes only. About Wiki-Errors Contact us Help Center Privacy Policy Terms of use End User License Agreement(EULA) Refund Policy How to Uninstall Disclaimers Sitemap
the delay factor to the maximum possible value. Note: this program speaks only German, but English docs are included. Note: This program is recommended by Borland. Use: if your program is program.exe , enter the command tppatchprogram.exe Warning: This patch will cause delay to run too fast on computers that are significantly faster than Pentium II with about 233MHz. Some programs require correct timing, for those this patch may do more harm than help! Other programs should work fine with this. Technical details: A patched program will test if the computer is too fast. If no it proceeds with calculating the delay factor as usual. If yes the factor is instead set to the maximum possible value. Program makes room for the required additional code by rewriting two variable assignments directly before the patched region with shorter code that is functionally equivalent. (If you don't see that it's equivalent after looking at the assembler code, note the registers that are used!). t7TplFix.zip patch program for Run Time Library file of Turbo Pascal 7.01 Program patches the file TURBO.TPL, the run time library file of Turbo Pascal version 7.01. Use: replace your file TURBO.TPL with the one generated by this program, then recompile your pascal sources. Technical Details: applies the same patches as in bp7patch (c't magazine), but uses the bugfixed Pascal version 7.01. No other files are changed, no other undocumented modifications are done to the CRT unit (unlike in the other distributed RTL files, see some of the other solutions below). NewDelay.pas unit with delay replacement and error trap (maybe newer version available here) This unit comes as pascal source. It contains two things: a new delay procedure that prevents the overrun by using a 32 bit delay factor instead of only 16 bit. a trap procedure to catch t