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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 QAA05101 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:41:04 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA19429 for nacm.com!executor; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:40:57 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sseug-000YdaC; Tue, 12 Sep 95 17:38 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sseuW-00000HC; Tue, 12 Sep 95 17:38 MDT Message-Id: <m0sseuW-00000HC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 17:38 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: executor@nacm.com Subject: 1.99o8 (all *six* of them) available RSN Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Hi folks, vorlon.mit.edu now has 1.99o8 for Linux and DOS. We're building 1.99o8 for NEXTSTEP/Intel right now. There are four linux variants now, an X-Windows a.out version, an X-Windows ELF version, an SVGAlib a.out version and an SVGAlib ELF version. We've broken the BleedingEdge directory into subdirectories so this plethora won't confuse anyone other than fellow Linux users. I strongly suggest you use vorlon.mit.edu:/pub/ardi rather than ftp.ardi.com, since vorlon is a much faster connect. Although there are a few bug fixes in 1.99o8, the biggest advancement is that in some environments Executor can now directly map in the framebuffer so that programs that write directly to the screen can work without the overhead of refresh. If you run Executor/DOS under DOS (you can't do this under Windows or OS/2) and have a VESA 2 driver, you will probably get this benefit. If you run the SVGAlib version of Executor under Linux and have a Mach32 or Cirrus based card you may get this benefit. If you have this capability, then games like Solarian, Apeiron and Maelstrom all play very nicely. The NEXTSTEP/Intel port still has the same limitations it had in 1.99o6, but at least we're now able to update it everytime we update the other versions. We hope to fix printing soon and provide some way of setting the virtual Mac screen size. After that come both Motorola support and support for faster screen access. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com