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Re: Anyone gotten A-10 or F-18 2.0 demos to work??
In article <4e4fmb$m3l@decaxp.harvard.edu>,
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu (Scott Shuchart) wrote:
>In article <4e0ooo$f5l@news.voicenet.com>, chessman@voicenet.com (ChessMan)
>declares...
>
>> The program is
>>essentially emulating System 6.0.7 which Apple stopped shipping with their
>>computers over 3 years ago
>[snip]
>>The software runs without any control panels or inits - a 'real' mac user
>has
>>many of these little programs at the tip of their finger tips - and of
>course
>>it's not multi-processing aware - to run two applications; you must run it
>>under windows and start it twice. So it really doesn't have the feel of a
>>MAC - but hey - it plays that little Risk game like a champ.
>
>I don't actually disagree with any of this, but thought it might be a good
>opportunity to remind people/clue in newcomers about the long-term ARDI
>strategy, at least as I, a registered Executor customer with no other ties to
>ARDI, understand it.
>
>Right now, they're doing everything they can to get a commercially viable
>version 2.0 out the door. The revenue from that will fund development for
>networking support, serial port support, better sound, more colors, etc.
>This may raise yet more money. But the longer-term goal, for version 3.0 or
>so, I guess, is to make Executor a base onto which one will install a real
>copy of System 7.x and run all MacOS functionality.
>
>There are three or so obstacles:
>
Sorry, I didn't realize how negative my post sounded until i read it again.
I'm still amazed at the Speedometer results running on a 90 mhz Pentium - and
the speed for a chess program running in emulation is pretty amazing too. It
wasn't too many years ago that the speed were talking about in emulation was
considered BLAZING for a MAC. Keep up the good work folks!
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