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- >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> writes:
-
- Tim> How is 1.99m coming along?
-
- We still have a little ways to go. However, this week I've been
- working on paperwork for some new investors, which is one of the
- reasons for the delay.
-
- Tim> I tried the DOS version of 1.99l, and I'd dearly love to get
- Tim> the new file manager bit for my registered Linux copy! Is it
- Tim> possible for me to copy the file manager from my DOS demo to
- Tim> my Linux version?
-
- Yes, you can do that, although you'll then have to run the browser by
- hand, since 1.99k doesn't automatically detect it and run it.
- Probably easier to wait for 1.99m, though. In addition, the 1.99l
- browser will not properly cross filesystem mount points which can be
- quite annoying (that's already fixed over here).
-
- Tim> Can the linux version read .hfv files, or will I have to go
- Tim> via a Mac floppy?
-
- E/L can read .hfv files. You can either copy them into Executor's
- library directory (probably /usr/local/lib/executor, or you set the
- MacVolumes environment variable to give the complete path of the
- directory containing the .hfv files, perhaps like this:
-
- export MacVolumes=/dos/executor
-
-
- Tim> Also, the SVGA Linux version sounds like a good idea... the
- Tim> Linux version is certainly measurably slower than the DOS
- Tim> version and the DOS version updates the screen more
- Tim> accurately, although that is doubtless due to X, so should
- Tim> disappear with an SVGAlib version.
-
- The screen update speed is something we can't do much about under X.
- We use the shared memory extensions when we can, and that helps things
- out a bit, but there's just no way to get directly at the frame buffer
- in X. So you're right, SVGAlib will greately speed things up.
-
- However, the screen color accuracy should be the same under X and DOS
- *if* you use the -private-cmap flag when running Executor/Linux. That
- flag will also make some graphic accesses faster, the fade up in
- Lemmings, for example.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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