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- To: Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com>
- cc: executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Has anyone tried "-refresh" games under E/D 1.99o8?
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- On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
-
- > E/D 1.99o8, when run with a VBE 2.0 driver (like UniVBE 5.1a) and most
- > SVGA boards, should not need "refresh" mode for various 8 bit per
- > pixel games that previously required refresh (e.g. Maelstrom,
- > Solarian, Apeiron). Unfortunately this speedup will probably only
- > work under plain DOS, and not under Warp or Windows.
- >
- > Anyway, such games should now be MUCH faster under Executor. Has
- > anyone tried this?
- >
- > -Mat
- >
- I try Wolf-3d and set using QuickDraw off but not screen update
- during the game if not using refresh option (I using VBE 2.0 and plain DOS).
-
- Hope this information helps you.
-
- Yours,
- Thomas
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