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Re: Executor Version 1.3 (or even 1.2f? :)
>>>>> "pageone" == pageone <pageone@netcom.com> writes:
pageone> Sounds good. I'm thinking about a certain game
pageone> "pararena" which was very usable under 1.2e but was hurt
pageone> badly by the color quickdraw in 1.99x. It looked like
pageone> the bitblt handling was slower (even in B&W mde).
Older versions of executor would let the emulated program directly
access the VGA frame buffer. That doesn't work under Windows/DPMI,
has various problems in larger screen modes, and doesn't work well
with dynamic depth setting, so now the emulated program references an
"offscreen" frame buffer which is used to update the real VGA screen
periodically. This indirection will slow down some programs (like
pararena?).
We may eventually add an option that gives you faster graphics access
under non-DPMI; that mode will cause serious problems with a few
programs (e.g. Solarian) so we can't make it the default.
-Mat
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