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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Seriously old Mac software
- Date: 13 Jul 1996 19:36:08 -0600
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- >>>>> "William" == William Safley <safley@stsci.edu> writes:
- In article <4s3s6u$c62@marvel.stsci.edu> safley@stsci.edu (William Safley) writes:
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- William> I've got some old Mac software (Word, Chart, a couple of
- William> games) that I run on a Mac 512K, and I also have Linux
- William> running on a 486. Because of the hoops I'd have to jump
- William> through to get the Mac software to the Linux disk, I
- William> haven't tried Executor. Has anyone tried such ancient
- William> software (from 1985 maybe?) on Executor? If it works,
- William> maybe I should try Executor again, and start jumping
- William> through those hoops....
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- William> Thanks,
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- William> William Safley safley@stsci.edu
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- The biggest questions are going to be:
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- Is the software 32-bit clean? Much was, but much wasn't.
- Dungeons of Doom wasn't, for instance.
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- Does the program try to access the hardware directly? Some real
- old programs not only write directly to the screen, but they even
- use hardcoded addresses to do so.
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- Does the program self-modify? In 1985 it was relatively safe to
- self-modify, but that's not the case with a 68040 with the cache
- on, or with Executor's synthetic CPU.
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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