We know that with some of the more recent versions of Executor/DOS,
we've given some people more functionality at the expense of others.
With some effort on our part we should be able to keep the new
functionality *without* losing what we already had. It might be
another week or two before you see that, since Mat's been taking a
little vacation of late and I've been taking a little sick leave.
The current implementation of "-noclock" does not do what the old one
did. As such, there's no reason to use it under 1.99h, but starting
with 1.99i and beyond there's a slim chance that it will make some
apps work properly.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
>>>>> "Kurt" == kurtg <kurtg@iastate.edu> writes:
Kurt> Since I shifted to version h I have lost the abiltiy to use
Kurt> 640x480 if I have installed a vesa driver for my cirrus
Kurt> logic board. I can access higher resolutions (or 640x480
Kurt> wiht 4 bits without vesa). Executor runs as though it is
Kurt> accessing the screen though: two returns and then disk
Kurt> access. It is as though the wrong video screen is being
Kurt> displayed. I played with command line switches to no avail.
Kurt> P.S. with the new clock method, is there any reason to chose
Kurt> "no clock" anymore
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Hi Chad,
What happened is that we had an agreement with some investors to provide us
with a certain amount of money in a certain amount of time, or so we thought.
We eventually got the money, but it wasn't when we thought it would be, so
the most opportune time for us to build a copy of 1.3 and send it to all our
existing 1.x customers came and went without us having the capital necessary
to do the duplication and mass mailing.
On the other hand, many of the things that made 1.99x less attractive than
what would have been 1.3 have either already been fixed, or will be fixed
soon. I can't speak about the games, but the Word bug that you mention is
well known and should be fixed for 1.99i. If we hadn't had so much sickness
and vacation time over the last couple months, it would be fixed by now.