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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA29901 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:02:38 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA12257; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:02:37 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sllEH-000YbnC; Thu, 24 Aug 95 16:58 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sllEG-00005nC; Thu, 24 Aug 95 16:58 MDT Message-Id: <m0sllEG-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 16:58 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: yanowitz@cs.umass.edu Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: 1.99o5 In-Reply-To: <199508241802.OAA15145@eternity.cs.umass.edu> References: <m0slcbN-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> <199508241802.OAA15145@eternity.cs.umass.edu> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu> writes: Jason> I got and installed this, with Xfree 3.1.2... same behavior Jason> as reported before (Linux-1.2.11, S3 server) with the Jason> Marathon demo. No refresh of doom-like-view screen (menus Jason> are fine, the radar works, and the map/moving in overhead Jason> mode works). behavior is both during interactive mode Jason> (i.e., playing the game) and when it's in demo mode. First off, I have yet to get Marathon running under Executor. I know that it works "better" than it did previously, but it is not something I have had time to look into yet. However, the problem that you are having is definitely one of refresh. Executor is not so smart about how refresh works. If you specify "-refresh 10" on the command line, that will start refresh up, *BUT* as soon as a configuration file turns refresh off, the command line request will be forgotten. It could be that your Browser configuration file is turning refresh off, or it could be even more difficult and your Marathon configuration file is turning refresh off. Here's how to reset it. Fire up Marathon and click to get past the Bungee splash screen and click again to get past the Marathon splash screen. Then Marathon should bring up the screen that gives you the option of starting a game. Use Cmd-Shift-5 to bring up the preferences panel, then put "10" in the refresh box and click on the "Save" button. After you're done with Marathon you should be able to see the configuration file in /usr/local/lib/executor/Configuration. Jason> is anyone else getting this symptom? Jason> note: I have tried a plethora switches, mucking with Jason> -refresh (different values), memory sizes, colormap, etc. You'll still want to run with "-privatecmap" just for speed. Jason> -- Jason Jason> ps: if I force a redraw of the whole screen (minimize and Jason> maximize window) then it shows the latest frame (but it Jason> doesn't do that if it goes from map mode back to "normal" Jason> mode. Right. That's the telltale sign of refresh getting botched. Marathon runs well enough now that we think we'll be able to get it to be quite playable by the time 2.0 ships, although under Linux it will probably require a video board that can be linearly mapped by SVGAlib and under DOS it will probably require a video card that can be linearly mapped via VESA 2 calls. We should also get Solarian, Maelstrom, Apeiron, Chiral and hopefully Swoop running as well. Once 2.0 is shipping we hope to have enough money to hire an engineer to do a bang up job on sound support. Before 2.0 ships we'll also be concentrating on big ticket apps like Quark 3, Illustrator 5.5 and Photoshop 3 as well as various scientific Mac-only software like NIH Image. We put time into games because they make good showcases for the speed of Executor (or they will, when the public can see how we do on a linearly mapped framebuffer). --Cliff ctm@ardi.com