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- Hello!
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- First, I wanna say thanx (yet again) to ARDI for creating this nifty and
- absolutely wonderful Macintosh emulator! v1.99o seems to be stable both
- under my PC-DOS 6.3 setup and in a VDM under Warp, and I'm very very happy
- with it. Just tested the diskette formatting this morning, and it works!
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- I noticed one change, tho, between v1.99n4 and v1.99o. The freeware game
- Glypha III (a nice 640x480x256 Joust clone) now seems to have a problem
- drawing the moving sprites. v1.99n4 worked fine, I think. v1.99m did
- for sure. But with v1.99o, the images seem to have extraneous white
- elements, and the image representing the player will not draw properly
- when facing in one direction (the other seems fine).
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- I submitted Glypha III to the unofficial ARDI pages games list, so others
- that want to check it out (and maybe confirm the bug?) should feel free.
- That game and Shatterball are admittedly my two main uses for the emulator
- right now <grin>.
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- One other thing: except for video (I'm using VESA 1.2), E/D 1.99o under
- DOS beats my Mac IIci here at work, at least according to Speedometer. I
- just upgraded my 486DX/33 to a 486DX4/100 (Intel OverDrive via processor
- swap), and that helped out quite a bit. :-) It's about twice as fast as
- the IIci in the benchmarks now on the average. Here are a few numbers I
- see for comparison (maybe others can post theirs?):
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- SpeedoMeter 3.23 CPU Disk Math Bench Ave.
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- Mac IIci 6.36 1.49 25.78 14.87
- E/D v1.99o on 486DX4/100 15.87 1.66 43.65 24.16
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- I get slightly lower numbers in a VDM under OS/2, but I tend to run a lot
- of disk monitors and other things in the background.
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- -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@skypoint.com -> Bloomington, MN
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- The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
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