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- On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Lyle Green Arnot Manzo wrote:
-
- > Hi, I'm Ecuadorian and I don't speak English but
- > I'll try, the best I can:
-
- Your Enlish is pretty good. I understood your message almost perfectly!
-
- > I Dowmload your "Executor 1.99p," (I think), the last Monday
- > because I like the idea, have a Mac on my Pc Intel DX4/ 100 Mhz,
- > I was dowmloading the software about 3 hours, because The host have
- > only 2400 bps modems, I think it was worth it (vale realmente la pena)
- > but it have serius problems.
-
- The latest version is 1.99q and it's a little better.
-
- > First, I can't execute the "inits" or another drivers what the best mac
- > software needs, then I have another problem to run software on the
- > "EXECUTOR". What can I think , if the executor demos are slower and
- > somethimes (if not always) it failed.
-
- A DX4 should have relatively good speed. Do you have enough RAM?
- What operating system do you use? If you were running under Windows
- it would be probably slower. You should use it in plain DOS or if in
- Win '95 shut down in DOS mode.
-
- > This is really slower, Your documents say it's so fast how the macs
- > but how a person here said, the new speed test (I don't remember the
- > name) is many times slower than you said, and I think this is true!.
-
- The processor speed is okay. The graphics is what's probably slow.
- It all depends on your graphics card. Did you try UniVBE (available
- in the DOS directory) to emulate a VBE 2.0 graphics card. That, for
- some people, makes executor work much faster.
-
- > Then a friend who had many Macs (duo, quadra), he saw the executor
- > and really laughed, many days after he still laughed, the applications
- > who run are many less (pocas), without inits and the MacOs SYSTEM 7
- > it have not future(not the browser), He lauch because he'd "Soft Windows"
- > by Insignia Solutions on his mac, it really works!, I like this software
- > it have no problems.
-
- The newest version has relatively neat System 7 support for well-behaved
- programs. It also has fuzzy fizzy sound that your friend will hate but
- all of us love!
-
- Soft Windows has licenses to all the source code and stuff,
- and compared with executor's hardware emulation, is slow.
-
- > I think before you distribute the software it first have to emulate
- > the processor and then the person install the system 6-7 (MacOs) not
- > the "Browser", you can't live giving "BETA VERSIONS".
-
- You don't understand. There is a REAL synthetic CPU under executor that
- flawlessly emulates a Motorola 68040. Because Executor is a CLEAN-ROOM
- project, the programmers work all day trying to guess what is in the
- undocumented Mac ROMS. The Browser can be made to have improvements,
- but the real goal is to run programs, right?
-
- Executor runs quite a few of programs very well. MS Word, for instance,
- works and people who use these applications at work could use the
- compatibility. Some of the people here love the old games. I also have
- an Apple ][e emulator. Useless? nah. It has some good games and a good
- way to begin BASIC programming.
-
- > I NEVER PAY FOR A SOFTWARE ($99, YOUR HAVE TO BE CRAZY) WHO NOW DON'T
- > WORK FINE, FIRST THIS LOOK GOOD BUT AT THE END IS A REAL "TOY".
-
- It's a toy for some people. For some it's not. That's the goal of the
- demo: to allow testing of programs.
-
- > I HOPE ANOTHER COMPANIES WORK ON THIS KIND OF SOFTWARE, I LIKE TO
- > KNOW WHAT COMPANIES WORK IN THIS SOFTWARE (AND IF IT WORK).
-
- You wish. Executor has spend the last 9 (or is it 10 now) working on
- this program and nobody can copy it without licensing the Mac ROMS and
- also getting the synthetic CPU from Mat Hostetter.
-
- > The Demo what I tried, have a 10 min. time, with your faster software
- > the executor finish first his trial time before I can't execute the
- > demos (lemmings for example) PLEASE THINK IN IT.
-
- Huh? Maybe something's wrong with your computer. I can easily start
- Lemmings on my copy.
-
- > I WANT TO KNOW WHEN THE LAST COMPLETE AND WORKING FINE VERSION WILL
- > BE READY????
- > YOU WILL HAVE A WINDOWS 95 VERSION????
-
- 2.0 is scheduled for March, (I think). They're planning to have a Win '95
- version after 2.0 comes out.
-
- -- Philip Zeyliger
- Registered E/D & E/L User
-
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