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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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