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Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA17758; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:43:55 -0700 Received: (cpage@localhost) by shell1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id NAA20155; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:44:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:44:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Page <cpage@best.com> To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com> cc: Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com>, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor 1.99n In-Reply-To: <m0sIP5d-000YbmC@mailhost> Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950607133506.15061A-100000@shell1.best.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote: > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > Dan> Is Executor 1.99n supposed to be out this week? I always end > Dan> up passing the beta versions out at school, but I can't do > Dan> that after Thursday. > > Sorry. It won't be out until next weekend at earliest. We still > think we can make next weekend, though. So far we've fixed tons of > bugs, totally revamped the blitter, got Bolo running, got Arashi Fun... Bolo really needs Appletalk support though :) > limping, allow access to D:, E:, etc. under DOS, allow access to DOS > filesystems under Linux, have adjusted E/D to allow printing multiple > times within one session,and have done a bunch of work on allowing > fonts and DAs to be installed by Loser. We've also written and > integrated, but not yet debugged the code that allows Loser to format > floppies. It sounds like 1.99n will move Executor to being more of a Mac-like environment. This is all pretty cool stuff. > We still have a little new code to write (finish font/da installation, > international keyboard mapping, code to allow apps to detect Executor > attributes) and a bunch more bug fixing to do, then we need to hunt > for new bugs that our mods have introduced. Something which strikes me with the new Executor releases is that after a release with many new features, there are usually some bugs that make it into the release (eg 1.99l). I'd expect a few bugs in 1.99n at first... BTW, PLEASE release a Linux and DOS version at the same time, so if it turns out to have bugs which would preclude a release because of stability reasons, those adventurous among us can try it anyway. :) > Hard to say. Here are some of the major things that still need to be > added. They may all be added to 1.99o, or we may have to split them > into 1.99o and 1.99p. > > NEXTSTEP port > > SVGAlib port (will be released soon after NEXTSTEP port) I'm REALLY glad to see this go in before 2.0! (just compare the performance of linuxxdoom and linuxsdoom... :) This will make Executor fast enough for use on just about anything videowise. Not only that - if the port is written right, it can use a linear frame buffer on cards which support it. On those cards, it will be faster than Executor/DOS even. > 16 and 32 bit per pixel support Cool... will it work in 24-bit mode under SVGALIB? > All told it's looking like 2.0 will be in beta in mid August and will > be in production in early October. This will be approximately an 18 > month slip from our original projection of when 2.0 would ship, but > that prediction was made before 1.0 was even in production, and back > then we were envisioning a 2.0 that would have had a few more features > but would have lacked 32-bit color QuickDraw (only the "old color > model" was going to be supported), would have had less System 7 > support, would have run fewer applications and would have had a slower > synthetic CPU and a slower blitter. Plus, of course, Linux support :) BTW, are there any plans to make a FreeBSD version of Executor? That would be very trivial to do, and help the FreeBSD people out quite a bit (I'm just starting to look at it myself.) (Guess : after 2.0 ships :) - Chad