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Received: from ftp.ardi.com (ftp.ardi.com [204.134.8.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA27846 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:37:13 -0800 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com with bsmtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMWOT-0007qAC; Mon, 4 Dec 95 01:37 MST Received: by gwar.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMWNx-000GPHC; Mon, 4 Dec 95 01:36 MST Message-Id: <m0tMWNx-000GPHC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 01:36 MST From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: sachavan@scunix4.harvard.edu (Sarinee Achavanuntakul) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Games that work Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor In-Reply-To: <49pt53$rvm@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <49mc5t$fve@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <49pt53$rvm@decaxp.harvard.edu> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>> "Sarinee" == Sarinee Achavanuntakul <sachavan@scunix4.harvard.edu> writes: Sarinee> To continue this useful thread, the following are Sarinee> games that run fine in DOS Executor, at least on my Sarinee> machine: [munch] Sarinee> Deliverance --screen updates slow though Deliverance is one of many Mac games that bypass QuickDraw and write directly to screen memory. Executor can run such games, but they tend to run slowly on most system configurations. On some configurations, however, Executor is able to give those games direct access to your video card and they're really fast. Deliverance Demo *smokes* on my Mach32/PCI P90. Here's what DOS users need to do for top graphics performance: 1) Make sure you have a decent SVGA card. If you have an old ISA VGA card, Executor's graphics just aren't going to be fast. PCI and VLB are your best bet. 2) Download and install UniVBE 5.1a: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/uvbe51a.zip This is a good shareware "universal" video driver that lets Executor take advantage of some important features on many SVGA boards. The most important is getting a "linear frame buffer". 3) Make sure you have the latest Executor/DOS (1.99p6). 4) Run Executor/DOS under plain DOS, *not* under Windows or Warp. If you've installed UniVBE and it supports your video card, "executor -info" should say it detects a VESA-compatible video driver, VBE 2.0. This won't work for everyone, but it will work for many people. If you can get the fast graphics working, Space Madness, Apeiron, Deliverance, Swoop, Solarian, etc. are quite playable. Executor/Linux/svgalib users will also be able to run these games at full speed if they have a board that's well supported by svgalib (e.g. Mach32 and some Cirrus chips). If you're running a 1.2.x kernel be sure to pick up the kernel patch from our ftp site. In addition to some mouse driver patches it also fixes an off-by-one error in the kernel timer code that can cause some arcade games to run too slowly. Linus has added our patch to the later 1.3.x kernels. -Mat