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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Ultimate Doom/Finder/FPU
- Date: 18 Jun 1996 22:50:57 -0600
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- In-reply-to: Daniel Tracy's message of Mon, 17 Jun 1996 05:01:45 -0700
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- >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:
- In article <31C54929.1F0E@earthlink.net> Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:
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- Daniel> Executor Rules! I have a 100MHz 686 32mb RAM system, and I
- Daniel> have been tempted recently to buy a Mac as well. A friend
- Daniel> calls me up and tells me about Executor and the same day
- Daniel> I'm playing Ultimate Doom demo 1.0.1 for the Macintosh!
- Daniel> Very decent speed, too. The program is amazingly quick
- Daniel> with VESA 2.0 support loaded.
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- Thanks. Executor 2 is faster than Executor 1 was and we hope to
- continue the trend with Executor 3.
-
- Daniel> Just a couple of quick questions. I remember that when I
- Daniel> had a Mac with System 6 I played with the Finder as an
- Daniel> Application, replacing it with other programs (like
- Daniel> Hypercard) launching it as a separate program, etc. Could
- Daniel> I load the Finder for 6.0.7 as an app or replace the
- Daniel> Browser with it?
-
- There are ways you can replace Browser, in theory, but since Finder
- won't run it will just cripple you. I recommend *not* playing with
- Browser, although we'll soon release the source to Browser and you can
- then hack that up if you want (unfortunately that will need to be done
- on a real Mac, since Think C won't link under Executor).
-
- Daniel> Also, is there any plan to add FPU emulation to Executor?
- Daniel> This would be much quicker than using a Mac FPU emulator.
-
- Not in the near future. Our high priority tasks are (off the top of my head,
- and in no particular order):
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- code reorganization
- ports to Win32 and OS/2
- serial support
- network support
- INIT and CDEV support (esp. QuickTime and ATM)
- bug fixes
- performance increases
-
- On the other hand, one aspect of the code reorg, assuming we implement
- it, will allow programs that use SANE to run much faster.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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