If anyone out there is running Executor/DOS 1.99l under Windows '95 or
OS/2 Warp, I would be VERY interested to hear about your experiences.
Older versions of Executor had some serious problems on those
platforms, which were probably cleared up in 1.99l.
Also, users who noticed extremely slow startup times under 1.99k
(apparently caused by limited DPMI memory available) may find that
1.99l starts up much faster. I am interested to hear what those users
think of 1.99l.
Thanks for your cooperation! Your feedback is extremely useful to us.
-Mat
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>Just had a look at E/D 1.99l.
>Looks good; certainly better and faster, but .... I notice a very annoying
>effect on my video screen. Every time E/D writes a large area of the screen
>(eg. a frame or window) the whole screen shifts a centimeter down, the top
>centimeter blacks out and the screen moves up again. The whole effect looks
>like one of these old TV sets that used to have sync problems. It happens
>really in a flash; it takes perhaps 100 ms.
>I tried another SVGA BIOS extension but the same effect remains.
>The whole thing is *very* annoying. It makes using E/D 1.99l almost
>impossible. Shame.
I have the same problem on a 486/66 8MB with an S3 but it seems as a big flicker
cos this video card is much faster than the Trident. Even when Lemmings starts,
the palette changes are very orrible.
I have also noticed that graphics is faster then on 1.99k but the browser is slow.