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Re: Games that work



>>>> "Sarinee" == Sarinee Achavanuntakul <sachavan@scunix4.harvard.edu> writes:

    Sarinee> 	To continue this useful thread, the following are
    Sarinee> games that run fine in DOS Executor, at least on my
    Sarinee> machine:
[munch]
    Sarinee> Deliverance --screen updates slow though

Deliverance is one of many Mac games that bypass QuickDraw and write
directly to screen memory.  Executor can run such games, but they tend
to run slowly on most system configurations.  On some configurations,
however, Executor is able to give those games direct access to your
video card and they're really fast.  Deliverance Demo *smokes* on my
Mach32/PCI P90.

Here's what DOS users need to do for top graphics performance:

  1) Make sure you have a decent SVGA card.  If you have an old
     ISA VGA card, Executor's graphics just aren't going to be fast.
     PCI and VLB are your best bet.

  2) Download and install UniVBE 5.1a:
       ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/uvbe51a.zip
     This is a good shareware "universal" video driver that lets
     Executor take advantage of some important features on many SVGA
     boards.  The most important is getting a "linear frame buffer".

  3) Make sure you have the latest Executor/DOS (1.99p6).

  4) Run Executor/DOS under plain DOS, *not* under Windows or Warp.
     If you've installed UniVBE and it supports your video card,
     "executor -info" should say it detects a VESA-compatible
     video driver, VBE 2.0.

This won't work for everyone, but it will work for many people.  If
you can get the fast graphics working, Space Madness, Apeiron,
Deliverance, Swoop, Solarian, etc. are quite playable.

Executor/Linux/svgalib users will also be able to run these games at
full speed if they have a board that's well supported by svgalib
(e.g. Mach32 and some Cirrus chips).  If you're running a 1.2.x kernel
be sure to pick up the kernel patch from our ftp site.  In addition to
some mouse driver patches it also fixes an off-by-one error in the
kernel timer code that can cause some arcade games to run too slowly.
Linus has added our patch to the later 1.3.x kernels.

-Mat


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