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- Subject: Running Executor on a laptop: advice sought
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- From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:03:48 -0800 (PST)
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- I'm considering purchasing a notebook computer. This is the CTX EZ350D,
- based on an Intel 486DX4/100 chip. Since I run some Mac programs, I
- would definitely be running Executor on it. More than likely, I'll be
- running Executor/DOS (either under Windows 95 or under straight MS-DOS),
- although I would be interested in hearing whether E/Linux will run under
- it (since I MAY be running either Linux or FreeBSD on it, whenever I get
- more hard drive space).
-
- I'm primarily concerned with the built-in video. It supposedly contains
- a VESA video accelerator with 1 MB VRAM. I don't know if it's VESA 1.x
- or 2.0 compliant; if it's 2.0, I'd be definitely interested to find out
- whether the linear framebuffer will work; if it isn't 2.0, I would want
- to run UniVBE on it. I'd also be interested in whether or not it can do
- higher resolutions; although I'd rather run at 640x480, I might want to
- go to 800x600 sometime.
-
- I'm also interested in the sound, since (at least, according to the
- spec's I have) it has a 16-bit soundcard built in. Unfortunately, I
- don't have any information whether it's Sound Blaster compatible or not.
- Will it run with Executor's sound code?
-
- And, lastly, this unit has one of those newfangled touch-pads instead of
- a traditional trackball, mouse, or "pencil eraser" (that's what I call
- them; I mean those IBM ThinkPad-style devices.) Do I assume correctly
- that, generally speaking, if it has a DOS-mode mouse driver with it, and
- if this driver were loaded, Executor would use it properly?
-
- Please let me know by e-mail and/or the list. Thanks!
-
- Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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