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- From: "Jon Hall" <jmah@isvr.soton.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:50:17 +0000
- Subject: Re: How to allocate memory for Mac programs?
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- >I'm using the latest demo of Executor for DOS. The Mac system
- >software has to have you manually "allocate" memory to apps- how can I
-
- This is only actually true under System 7.x (or System 6.x with
- Multifinder); Under System 6 with the normal Finder (which is
- essentially what Executor emulates), all Mac memory not used by the core
- System is automatically given to the application (which makes sense
- since it's the only thing running).
-
- >do this under Executor, or do I have to? I have an 8 meg 486DX4-120,
- >I wanted to give Marathon a shot, but upon trying to get into the game
- >(the preferences and title screen come up fine), it states I should
- >allocate more memory to the app- the game only needs 3 megs, so it
- >should work.
-
- Executor _should_ pick up all available memory (less that used by
- SmartDrive etc.) automatically, but there are command line switches that
- allow you to tweak the way Executor uses memory somewhat. Try running
-
- executor -help
-
- and look at the switches -memory and -applzone in particular.
-
-