Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text0076.txt

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On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:

> 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.

    Actually, I'm not worried about the mass mailing - I'd just like
a transmog file (even if it was officilly just an experimental version
1.2f (witness the similie in my Subject)...

    I'd rather see the money from a mass mailing go to finish
Executor 2.0, and then get it to run system 7.5 (I can't wait for that -
then Executor would hopefully look and feel EXACTLY like a Mac!)

> 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

    Sounds good.  I'm thinking about a certain game "pararena" which
was very usable under 1.2e but was hurt badly by the color quickdraw in
1.99x.  It looked like the bitblt handling was slower (even in B&W mde).

    That and I seem to like B&W Macs (if only they made new ones
which were FAST... The old 68000 macs are too slow for me... :)

> 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.
>
    Good!  I'd like to be able to really use MacWord again...

    (Oh, no, another bug report...)

    I tried running the 1.99h demo under Linux, but it ate up 24 MB
and went into UMSDOS swap space (it brought this system to it's knees!).
This is a 486DX1/50 with 32 MB ram...  I'm using Linux 1.1.83 and
Slackware 2.1 with XFree 3.1.  I'll try an earlier kernel and seeing what
happens.  If there's any option switch I can try, I'd do it...

    Thanks!

    - Chad Page

>     --Cliff
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>     I remember a few months ago there were plans to merge the
>
> executor 1.2e source tree with the new synthetic CPU, and release a
>
> version 1.3.
>
>     I'd still like to have a copy of 1.3 (if it's possible to make
>
> one...).  I'm wondering why it hasn't been released (IMHO, some stuff
>
> such as word 5.0 and some games ran better or more reliabily under 1.2e
>
> than 1.99x and I'd like to see that merged with the fast CPU!)
>
>     I think the original B&W video code is a bit faster under some
>
> applications than the color one, and I'd like to be able to use both.
>
>     (My problem with Word 5.0 is that after some dialogs the UI
>
> crashes - this is under 1.99h, and it's the About Word and the Summary
>
> Info dialog.  The system just hangs after those, but Alt-Shift-5 still
>
> works.)
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     - Chad Page
>
>

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 18:13:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Klann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Executor under OS/2 Warp
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> I don't think that's correct, because I can run (sort of) Executor under
> Warp. The "finder" (or however it's called, I'm no Mac connaisseur) DOES
> come up, but whenever I try to execute something, it just crashes(?),
> i.e. the session is ended, but I don't get any error message/dialog.
>
> Any hints?
>

    What version of OS/2 are you running?  If it is a version that
crashes if it tries to page on 4 megs of RAM, you may need to set the DPMI
memory limit higher; the default *is* 4.
    I have Warp, but I haven't tried Executor on it yet.  My video
card desyncs when I switch to an odd video mode -- which is *very*
aggravting... :(  (happens in OS/2 and Linux)

Jeff Klann - [e-mail]