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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From: Joseph_Pena@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Joseph Pena)
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The Executor 1.9h demo, not the Transmorg upgrade, that is located on
ftp.umn.edu under the /pub/ardi/ directory
is corrupted. I have downloaded the file 3 times. Everytime I try using
the demo, I receive an error message stating that it can not find the
/System/System files. I do disable the SmartDrive Disk Caching. What is
the matter with the archive? Can someone E-mail me a copy of the Executor
for DOS, ver. 1.9h file that is not corrupted? Or could you please give a
site that has a noncorrupted copy? Thanks. Please send it to me at:
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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
To: MOLDER@dnrmai.dnr.wisc.gov (Robert Moldenhauer +1 608-264-8971)
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Subject: Re: Sound?
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There are [plans to offer sound support. However, it won't be done
until after 2.0 ships. The original 2.0 plans included sound support,
but we also thought we'd have 2.0 out in May '94. We're not proud
that things have slipped as much as they have, and one of the ways to
prevent further slippage is to cut features, and sound was one of
them.
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Moldenhauer +1 608-264-8971 <MOLDER@dnrmai.dnr.wisc.gov> writes:
Robert> Just bought a copy of executor/DOS, it's a great product,
Robert> but I have a question. Is there a plan to offer sound
Robert> support? Most Windows based computers have sound cards
Robert> and sould be capable of emulating Mac sound.
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