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- From: justin@mammoth.valleynet.com (Justin Day - User)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor,comp.emulators.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac on PC
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- Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:49:47 GMT
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- Bonzo (bonzo@wolsi.com) wrote:
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- : System 6
- : No TrueType fonts (bitmapped only)
- : no control panels
- : no inits
- : DA support is flakey
- : no appletalk
- : no serial ports
-
- : One real whiz bang program. What a joke. Imagine SoftWindows only being
- : able to run Windows 1.0 programs, and thats about what you get with
- : executor.
-
- Thats because ARDI is doing it the hard way to make sure its legal.
- They are completely rewriting the OS and the ROMs! This not only makes
- executor legal and easy to run (no having to ROM dump) it also makes it
- faster by being customized toward the PC archetecture.
-
- ARDI is practacly a garage operation and they have (in my opinion)
- produced the fastest and most involved emulator to date...period. Heck
- they're emulating undocumented commands by trial and error! It takes a
- long time but produces nice results.
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