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Re: Hypercard





On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Rieppi wrote:

>         Hi all,
> 
>         I use EXECUTOR/DOS 1.99p4 to run Hypercard player 2, because I need
> to run the HC stack of my Roman law course.
...
>         The problem is that, to make it work that well, I have to activate
> the option Flush Cache Often. But when I do it, the video emulation hugely
> slows down: the windows are drawn at a nearly insupportable speed on my
> 486DX2-80Mhz with 8 megs of memory, a good machine I think.
...

I tried HyperCard 2.2 on a number of machines running Executor 1.99p4:
   - 486/33, 8 MB RAM, DOS: unbearably slow, no chance to work like that
   - Pentium 90, 16 MB RAM, DOS: pretty fast, no complaints
   - 486DX2/66, 12 MB RAM, Linux 1.2.13: to my surprise, at least (!) as 
     fast as Pentium/DOS 
I never touched the Flush Cache option though. I recommend to try running it
under Linux (if possible) on the same or a better machine.

Regards,
Frank Stolze


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