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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Some recent software testing...
- Date: 08 Apr 1996 22:44:51 -0600
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- >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Romerstein <romer@access.digex.net> writes:
- In article <4k4s63$nnf@news4.digex.net> romer@access.digex.net (Dave Romerstein) writes:
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- Dave> Under E/D 1.99q (I haven't tried q12 yet), I managed to get
- Dave> Hellcats Over the Pacific to fly... on the 12 meg 486/66 at
- Dave> work it was a little slow, but I'm going to retry it tonite
- Dave> on my 16 meg P75 here at home...
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- Having VESA 2 compatibility probably makes a big difference, too. If
- you don't have it and haven't yet tried UniVBE, you should definitely
- try UniVBE.
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- Dave> Also, d/led a couple of toys from our local info-mac mirror
- Dave> and found some incompatibilities:
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- Dave> Zork27M does not accept any keyboard input from
- Dave> Executor... makes it tough to quit...
-
- Yes, Think-C text based programs have this problem. It's *NOT* easy
- to solve. They patch out some low-level drivers and I wasn't able to
- figure out exactly what they're doing.
-
- Dave> Solitaire All Night dumps me to DOS when I try to choose
- Dave> another game type..
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- If that still causes trouble in q12, please capture a backtrace and
- send it to us.
-
- Dave> Other than these, I am constantly amazed at
- Dave> Executor... since leaving my parent's house (and their
- Dave> PowerMac) I've had to do with Mac access... now, playing
- Dave> with Executor, I'm starting to remember why I hate Windoze
- Dave> <G>
-
- Yeah. Too bad Apple doesn't want their OS to run on Intel based
- machines. I think they could give Microsoft a run for the money.
- It would be a long hard fight, but they could do it.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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