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- From: Eric Palm <eretic@sunspot.tiac.net>
- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
- cc: executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: 1.99p4 available + status report
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- On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
-
- > Hi Folks,
- >
- > 1.99p4 is available the same way 1.99p3 was.
- > ftp://vorlon.mit.edu/pub/ardi/BleedingEdge has a DOS, Linux and
- > NEXTSTEP subdirectory, each of which has patches from 1.99p to 1.99p4.
- >
- > 1.99p4 has yet another attempt to fix the flakiness that Executor/DOS
- > shows under Windows 3.x.
- >
- > 1.99p4 does *not* fix the slow-drive opening bug. It appears that the
- > bug in question is not related to long filenames, so we will need more
- > input from people who are seeing the problem. What I'd like anyone
- > who is plagued by the slow DOS drive opening bug to do is: Open a
- > drive and after the disk activity has stopped, but while Executor
- > appears to be doing nothing, type CTRL-BREAK (the BREAK key is the
- > right most key on the very top row of most American keyboards. It may
- > be labeled Pause / Break). That *should* produce a "traceback" which
- > we would very much like e-mailed to us (bugs@ardi.com). We'll then
- > have to study a few tracebacks before we can make any diagnosis.
- >
- > In the meantime, 1.99p4 has a new feature "auto-refresh", which
- > automatically sets refresh to 10 if Executor detects that programs are
- > writing directly to the screen. The command line option "-info" is
- > now supported in all versions of Executor, not just E/D. 1.99p4 also
- > gives warnings in a variety of places, one of which is if Executor
- > doesn't have an application zone large enough for the program being
- > run.
- >
- > IMPORTANT NOTE: Right now, and possibly even when 2.0 ships, Executor
- > uses Application Zone memory less efficiently than a real Mac, so if
- > you run Executor and get a warning and the warning says that you need
- > to run a given program with a certain amount of memory, you should
- > consider running it with 20% more memory than you are instructed.
- >
- > Many bug fixes have been added. Some programs that benefit from these
- > fixes include Quark XPresss, HyperCard, Deliverance, Space Madness
- > (must turn sound off to run properly), Ultima III (must turn sound off
- > to run properly), and Konica Picture Show (still has problems). Since
- > 1.99p4 has been released, we've also made some fixes that help out
- > PageMaker. In addition we fixed a fairly nasty bug that made it more
- > likely that a program would die if some other program had been run
- > first (i.e. run the browser, run program A, quit, run program B and B
- > would be more likely to die the second time than if it had been run
- > without A having ever been run).
- >
- > IMPORTANT NOTE 2: Many more games are now playable than ever before.
- > This is not because we are concentrating on games, per-se, but rather
- > a side-effect of the fact that games tend to push 32-bit color
- > quickdraw pretty hard and we have recently found and fixed a bunch or
- > bugs in our implementation of 32bQD. However, many games will only
- > work if you turn Pretend Sound on, *and* turn sound off within the
- > game itself. Whenever you run a program, you should check to see if
- > there's a way to turn sound off and if there is, turn it off before
- > doing anything else. If you do that, "Space Madness" will run.
- > Neato.
- >
- > We still have 55 major bugs that we want to address before Cotton
- > leaves on Tuesday. I'm not sure that we'll make our goal, but we're
- > getting close. We're now looking into the best way for us to start
- > burning test CD-ROMs. We've decided that 2.0 will be released on a
- > CD-ROM and that we'll send all of our current customers a copy on
- > CD-ROM (no shipping charge) rather than force you to pick it up
- > electronically.
- >
- > If you are experiencing the slow opening of DOS drives, please use
- > CTRL-BREAK as described above to get us the information we need to
- > find and fix that bug.
- >
- > --Cliff
- > ctm@ardi.com
- >
- Well, if your sending out a CDROM to all registered users, how about a
- bunch of HFV's with programs that are known to work with 2.0, or are
- somewhat flakey, but looks like they could soon be working with a future
- release of Executor? The CD's are going out, and the pain is not getting
- Exectutor off the Internet, it's waisting time ftping software that won't
- work, and having to trash them.
-
- Just a suggestion.
-
- Eric
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