Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.92/text0034.txt

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Dear Folks,

    I've been away from ARDI for the last ten days, so if you've
sent personal e-mail to me, expect a reply within the next couple of
days.

    Rohit Khare has asked us to provide him with Executor "tips &
hints" for an upcoming NeXTWORLD column.  Any suggestions you have
you can send to me and I'll sort out the duplicates, give credit
where credit is due, and send them on to Rohit.  The biggest hints I
can think of are "try running it on a Quadra with the cache on to see
if there are incompatibilities" and "set the screen size *before*
hitting the initial 'OK' button if you want to have more 'Mac
Pixels'".

    I'll soon be requesting general information about what runs
and (doesn't) under V1.2, but let me catch up on e-mail and other odd
ARDI ends before you start sending us information, however: if you
know whether or not "Meeting Maker" runs under Executor, please send
me the answer when your spare time permits.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Excel 3.0 performance?

Hi,

I would like to know how well Excel 3.0 performs under Executer.
Specifically, could you say it performs like Excel running on Mac
model X, where X could be Classic, II, IIci, etc.?  How about support
for Excel 4.0?  Depending on how well Excel runs, we will either
upgrade our Mac IIcx at home with a Radius rocket, or buy a NeXT and
run Excel under Executer.  I will post a summary if responses
warrant.

Thanks in advance,

Brendan Mumey
Computer Science Dept., U.B.C.
(NeXTmail welcome)



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Subject: Finale

Dear Folks,

    Apparently when Executor 1.2 was released, it broke "Finale".
We do not as yet own a copy of Finale, so even though it was reported
by one of our beta testers, we managed to overlook this problem.
Here's a summary of the situation, you can write to me for more
information if you need it:

    Apparently when Finale starts up, it looks at all the volumes
that are accessible and chooses to write temp files on the one that
has the most amount of free space left.  Currently, although Executor
allows you to use your UNIX filesystem, it cheats in one key respect:
it says that all UNIX filesystems have 10Mb of disk space left on
them, so Finale chooses to write on the first volume it sees, which
is "/".  The Finale code doesn't check to see whether permissions
will prevent it from doing this, in fact, on a Mac, if you have a
read-only Appleshare volume, you'll get the same thing you get under
Executor, a "mystery hang."

    Two possible workarounds are:

    1) Run Executor as root when you are going to run Finale.
       As root, you'll be able to write in "/".  A few temp files
       will be created, but they'll be deleted when you're done.

       The major disadvantage here is the same as you get
       whenever you do things as root; you could inadvertantly
       stomp something that you shouldn't.

    2) Change the permissions of "/" to allow writing.  If you do
       this, I suggest you also turn on the "sticky" bit as well.
       (Normally if you have write access to a directory, you can
       delete any file in the directory, whether you own the file
       or not.  When the sticky bit is set, only the owner of a
       file can delete the file).  To do this you need to do
       something similar to:

        iclone% su
        Password:
        iclone# chmod a+w,+t /
        iclone# ls -ld /
        drwxrwxrwt 24 root        1024 Jul 22 15:59 /

       The drawback here is that other users of your system can
       leave junk in "/", which ties up disk space and can be
       an eyesore when you're doing lists.  In general, this
       solution is preferable to #1 above.

    I believe that on a Mac, you can hold down the option and
clover key at the same time when Finale is launching and it won't
have this nasty behaviour.  Apparently this doesn't work under
Executor, although as of yet, I don't know why.

    One final note, Executor still does not support access to the
serial ports, so you can only use Finale for notation, not music
playing or synthesis.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Who uses "Equation Editor?"

Dear Folks,

    The new Executor binders (as displayed at the July BANG
meeting) and slipcases are at the printer.  We're in the process of
writing the documentation and fixing the bugs that you've graciously
alerted us to.  When all that's done, we'll put Executor 1.2.1 in the
mail.

    Now for my plea for help:  Executor 1.2 didn't support
Equation Editor, but it appears to work now.  I'd like to hear from a
few Executor users who:

    1) Have Word5

    2) Know how to use Equation Editor

    3) Can receive 500k NeXTmail

    4) Have a little free time on their hands

    The first ten users that fit that bill will be sent a copy of
Executor (just the application; there's no point in sending the whole
package) that they can use to look for bugs in Equation Editor.

    Totally unrelated is the fact that for all of the business
day today, all of our phones were not functioning.  If you tried to
call us, it appeared that our phones were ringing and we were not
answering.  We weren't ignoring anyone, and of course we haven't gone
out of business.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Exciting stuff (Be sure to read if you're a distributor)

Dear Folks,

    Work steadily progresses on V1.2.1, the documentation and the
packaging.  We've fixed many bugs, especially printing related ones.
We think that V1.2.1 will be sufficiently useful to the general
public that we're going to start *marketing* it instead of just
selling it through word of mouth.  However, the versions that will be
sold through distributers will not have any restrictions on which
apps will run and which won't; they'll also come automatically with
one years worth of free upgrades; the retail price will be $360.  If
you've already purchased a more limited version of Executor for one
machine and want to upgrade to this fully unlimited version, we'll do
that for $350 minus whatever you've already paid to us, and we'll
make sure your free upgrades run until October 1, 1993.  If you've
already purchased a limited version of Executor for multiple machines
and you want to upgrade, contact me directly.  Whether or not you
upgrade, you'll still be sent a manual and an upgrade to 1.2.1 when
they're ready.

    To get things going, we're putting in a full page ad in the
next copy of NeXTWORLD.  In addition to it being an ad for us, it
will also list the names, addresses and phone numbers of the
distributers who have ordered five or more copies for resale before
August 15th (we have to have the ad final art in by the 21st of
August).  If you're a distributer and you'd like to participate in
this ad, please send me e-mail.  This is the first we've said
anything of this, so if you're a dealer and I've said that we'd like
to work with you, we still do; we just haven't sent individual e-mail
or made calls yet; we're going to be doing much of that next week.

    We will still offer the limited versions of Executor, we
think they are very valuable for people who aren't so much interested
in emulating a Mac per se, but to just run specific programs (usually
either Word or Excel).  We will also be selling the limited versions
to VARs so that they can sell a dozen NeXTs, equipped with Word
and/or Excel, without having to pay for a full purpose Mac emulator.

    Gotta run,

    --Cliff

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Subject: Excel 4.0 support

Dear Folks,

    Executor 1.2.1 will work with Excel 4.0.  We just tested it
today.  There are likely to be some quirks, but if you've paid for
Excel support (or an unlimited version), then you'll continue to get
upgrades beyond 1.2.1 until Excel works exceedingly well.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Speed of Executor



At what speed does Excel 3.0 run??  Like a Classic, or a CX??

And what system does Executor run 6.0.??? or 7.0???

Thanks,

Alex Dahl
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Dear Folks,

    If you've tried MapInfo under Executor, please let me know
what happened.  Thanks.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Anyone interested in Cricket Draw and Executor

I would like to know if anyone using Executor has tried
using, or would like to use Cricket Draw. I am still
ball-and-chained to my Mac until I find a way to bring
40 Meg of pictures from CD over to the NeXT in an
editable form. Anyone out there in a similar position?

I have tried CD 1.1 on Executor, and all of the functions
work. However, the save-as feature to EPS format
doesn't work...as a matter of fact it hangs the app.
Also, the print feature does the same thing. This is
under V1.2. The only other gripes are probably standard;
that the reshape handles to not align with what is
illustrated, that the text does not appear unless you
go into edit mode, that the application doesn't allow multiple
applications, or to close an application, and that the
window doesn't scale nicely.

I have not tried using the 32-bit clean version of CD (CD III)
yet, maybe it will work better. I have also suggested to
Computer Associates (who writes Cricket Draw) that they
form an alliance with ARDI.

Jack Hodges, SFSU

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Subject: Cricket Draw and Executor

Dear Jack and folks,

    Much work has been done on printing, and what we're running
in the labs (which will be frozen as 1.2.1 soon) *does* support EPS
under Word 5 (that is to say the EPS/TIFF/PICT translator that comes
with Word 5 will read the EPS for inclusion in a file, and the EPS
image will appear when you print the file).  We still don't have a
copy of Cricket Draw to test under Executor, so I can't say how much
of the bug fixes that are currently in place will fix problems with
Cricket Draw.  However, Jack's calling of people at Computer
Associates has resulted in them talking to us, and we are trying to
convince them to give us free copies so we can take a look at them
under Executor.

    We're hoping that our NeXTWORLD ad will make some waves and
bring us enough credibility in ISVs eyes so that they can start
ponying up free copies of software for us to test under Executor, but
even if that doesn't work, the extra revenue, that should be
generated starting in October, will give us more flexibility to buy
that which isn't given to us.

    If you're already a customer of a software house, it doesn't
hurt for you to call them up and suggest that they send software our
way.  It's a shame that the Mac is such a tricky little bugger, but
then again, if it weren't, I guess we would have competition.

    --Cliff

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Subject: Re: Speed of Executor


>At what speed does Excel 3.0 run??  Like a Classic, or a CX??

>And what system does Executor run 6.0.??? or 7.0???

>Thanks,

>Alex Dahl
>[e-mail]            or       [e-mail]

It depends...
On some things like graphics it's pretty slow. However, on things
like file operations, it's really quick. When I created a Compact Pro
file with it, it compressed 2.227 MB of tiff files (on the Next file
system) in 4 minutes 36 seconds. It also compressed 1.11 MB of
Infocom text-based games in 3 minutes 14 seconds. I'm not sure, but I
believe that's faster than my SE/30 could do.

Text scrolling seems faster, too.

It does seem to slow down the NeXT a bit.

Later,

Jon

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Subject: Status of 1.2.1 and upcoming Price Change

Dear Folks,

Here's the status of 1.2.1:

    The binders and slipcases are back from the printers
    The manual is at the printers
    All new features have been added and debugged
    A very small handful of critical bugs are still being fixed
    Our ad in the upcoming NeXTWORLD has been finished and sent
    Our dealers are in the process of learning what Executor's
        all about

We hope to put everything together starting next week.  Originally the plans
were to have the manuals back on Monday, but there was some confusion and
it's not clear the printer can make that deadline.

Here is a list of all the commercial software that we have been working with
of late.  Some of this is borrowed and will have to be returned soon, but we
expect to get much more software to test, once our ad is out in NeXTWORLD
and we look real enough for ISV's to send us their software.

Has been tested, runs very well:
    Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego 1.0
    Crystal Quest 2.20Z
    Excel 3.0A
    Excel 4.0
    Managing Your Money 4.0
    MacLinkPlus PC 6.0 (Translators only)
    Word 4.0{D,E}
    Word 5.0
    Leprechaun 3.0 (Needs Pretend Sound)
    Quicken 3.0
    SimAnt 1.0
    Resorcerer 1.0

Hasn't been tested much, runs pretty well:
    CricketGraph 1.3.2
    FileMakerPro 1.0v2
    FractaSketch 1.39
    Fontographer 3.5
    MacInTax 1992 9.01
    MacPaint 2.0 (has printing problems)
    MacProjectII 2.5v1 (has printing problems)
    MacWriteII 1.1v1
    MacMoney V3.52
    MacMoneyBeta
    MandelMovie 1.88
    SuperPaint 1.1MS (requires Refresh)
    Resolve
    TeachText 1.2 (has printing problems)


Hasn't been tested much, limps:
    ClarisCad            scrolling problems
    HyperCard            varied
    MacDrawII            scrolling problems
    MacDrawPro            scrolling problems
    PageMaker            varied
    Quark XPress            varied

Does not run at all:
    GreatWorks            bad trap patching
    InteractivePhysicsII        I don't yet know
    MacGraphX            makes color calls we don't have
    Nisus                bad trap patching
    Studio1                I don't yet know
    ThinkC 4.0            Not 32-bit clean (we don't have 5.0)

Here is a list of publicly redistributable (shareware, freeware, demoware)
that we've been testing on.

Has been tested, runs very well:
    Amazing
    Artillery
    BinHex v5.0
    BlackBox
    Cairo ShootOut
    Engel's Enigma
    Globe
    GunShy 1.0
    Hangman 9.0
    Hot Air Baloon 2.1
    IAGO
    KillerFrogs DEMO
    MacYahtzee
    Mines
    Missle Game
    MotorBike
    Precision Cribbage
    Reversi
    Risk
    Shanghai DEMO 2.0
    Stuntcopter 1.2
    Units
    A-S Baseball
    blackjack 2.0
    Darts
    LawnZapper
    Lazlife 2.0c
    Phraze Craze
    SilverFingers DEMO
    Super MANDELZOOM 1.0


Hasn't been tested much, runs pretty well:
    1000 Miles (has cache problems when doing "About ...")
    KaleidaGraph 2.0 DEMO
    Orion V1.0
    Pleiades 1.0
    ResorcererDEMO 1.0
    SimCity DEMO
    Speedometer 3.01
    TeleWar DEMO (Needs Refresh, can't use serial ports)
    Biorhythm II (can't print)

Hasn't been tested much, limps:
    Backgammon (has bad code; will die unexpectedly)
    DiskLib 1.82
    More 1.1c DEMO
    MultiFlow II 1.0 DEMO
    Write Idea DEMO

Does not run at all:
    Monopoly V4.0
    Canfield 2.0 (has cache problems)
    Adventure (weird use of TextEdit)
    Arkanoid (can't allocate alternate audio and sound buffers)
    Dungeon of Doom (not 32-bit clean)
    Galaxis 1.02 (Executes _AddDrive trap)
    MacBzone 1.3.1 (SIGFPE in CopyBits)
    MacMan 1.0.2 (jumps to location 0)
    Polyominoes (quits)
    Stuffit 1.5 (doesn't like our filesystem)
    Zork (weird use of TextEdit)

We also have a couple of CD-ROMs of Publicly Distributable stuff that we
test under Executor.  Once we're back in the black, we'll buy the latest
BMUG or BCS CD-ROM and start testing that stuff a little more methodically.
Executor 1.2.1 and the copy of HFS_XFer supplied with it will read Mac
formatted CD-ROMs.

Feel free to send us additions or corrections to our list.  Once 1.2.1 is
out we're going to try to get a new copy of the list out to our dealers
every month.

Executor 1.3 should be out at the end of this year, or early in the new
year.  It will take advantage of NeXTSTEP 3.0 better than 1.2.1 does and
should have many more applications running under it.

===========================================================================

Beginning October 1, we will be discontinue our pricing scheme that is based
on the number of "big ticket" apps you wish to run.  We've had problems
explaining that pricing scheme since day one.  To be honest, several people
advised us against such a scheme, but I personally thought it was worth
trying.  We will Grandfather in all the people who have already purchased
Executor under that scheme, but you will not be entitled to free upgrades.
The new retail price is $360 for a copy of Executor that attempts to run
anything, but still has the compatibility problems described above.
However, that price includes a year of free upgrades, and in that time we
honestly expect to have most things running exceedingly well.  The
educational price is $180; you get exactly what the non-educational people
get, but your floppy, slipcase and manual are stamped "Educational Version".
College and University students and faculty qualify for the educational
prices.

Note, the above prices are retail, it is expected that some dealers will
offer discounts.  Because of this, we've changed our program for conversion
from limited copies to unrestricted copies:

If you qualify for an educational discount, then we will upgrade you to an
unrestricted version for $140 minus what you've already paid per copy.    If
you've already paid more than that, we'll try to work something out (we
don't want our early supporters to feel cheated).  This means that any
educational user who has paid for Word and Excel support will automatically
be converted to unrestricted support, and get free updates until October
1993.  Most of these conversions will be done automatically when we ship
Executor 1.2.1 and our new binders/slipcases/manuals.  However, it doesn't
hurt to send us proof of educational userness.

If you don't qualify for an educational discount, the above paragraph
applies to you, except the difference is from $280.  We have definitely sold
some unrestricted versions at a higher price, and we will be contacting
those individuals to discuss the situation (if you're one of them, you can
e-mail us or call us).  Again, we don't want our early customers to feel
cheated by buying early.

==========================================================================

A letter detailing the above changes will be sent with your copy of Executor
1.2.1.  I hope you understand why we're changing things the way we are.  I
believe we'll all profit from this change, since the added revenue will
allow us to progress to complete emulation significantly faster.

As always, your comments are appreciated.  This mailing list has been
awfully quiet of late; I've had my head firmly embedded in our emulator
since I got back from my non-honeymoon (we didn't go anywhere, but I stayed
away from computers for a week).

        --Cliff        [e-mail]

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Subject: Improving performance and other stuff..


Can anyone supply any pointers for how I can improve the performance
of Executor? I'm running an 040 cube with 16 megs of Ram, 250 meg HD,
and Optical Drive. Executor seems to get slower and slower the longer
it runs. Will 1.2.1 improve performance?

Also, sometimes when I've been running Executor, the whole machine
slows to a crawl even after I've quit Executor. It stays this way
until I reboot.

Also, will 1.2.1's HFS_Xfer read mac files copied via NS 3.0? Is it
just a matter of having the data fork files visible?

Jon
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