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- >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu> writes:
-
- Jason> I got and installed this, with Xfree 3.1.2... same behavior
- Jason> as reported before (Linux-1.2.11, S3 server) with the
- Jason> Marathon demo. No refresh of doom-like-view screen (menus
- Jason> are fine, the radar works, and the map/moving in overhead
- Jason> mode works). behavior is both during interactive mode
- Jason> (i.e., playing the game) and when it's in demo mode.
-
- First off, I have yet to get Marathon running under Executor. I know
- that it works "better" than it did previously, but it is not something
- I have had time to look into yet.
-
- However, the problem that you are having is definitely one of refresh.
- Executor is not so smart about how refresh works. If you specify
- "-refresh 10" on the command line, that will start refresh up, *BUT*
- as soon as a configuration file turns refresh off, the command line
- request will be forgotten. It could be that your Browser
- configuration file is turning refresh off, or it could be even more
- difficult and your Marathon configuration file is turning refresh off.
-
- Here's how to reset it.
-
- Fire up Marathon and click to get past the Bungee splash screen and
- click again to get past the Marathon splash screen. Then Marathon
- should bring up the screen that gives you the option of starting a
- game. Use Cmd-Shift-5 to bring up the preferences panel, then put
- "10" in the refresh box and click on the "Save" button.
-
- After you're done with Marathon you should be able to see the
- configuration file in /usr/local/lib/executor/Configuration.
-
- Jason> is anyone else getting this symptom?
-
- Jason> note: I have tried a plethora switches, mucking with
- Jason> -refresh (different values), memory sizes, colormap, etc.
-
- You'll still want to run with "-privatecmap" just for speed.
-
- Jason> -- Jason
-
- Jason> ps: if I force a redraw of the whole screen (minimize and
- Jason> maximize window) then it shows the latest frame (but it
- Jason> doesn't do that if it goes from map mode back to "normal"
- Jason> mode.
-
- Right. That's the telltale sign of refresh getting botched.
-
- Marathon runs well enough now that we think we'll be able to get it to
- be quite playable by the time 2.0 ships, although under Linux it will
- probably require a video board that can be linearly mapped by SVGAlib
- and under DOS it will probably require a video card that can be
- linearly mapped via VESA 2 calls. We should also get Solarian,
- Maelstrom, Apeiron, Chiral and hopefully Swoop running as well. Once
- 2.0 is shipping we hope to have enough money to hire an engineer to do
- a bang up job on sound support.
-
- Before 2.0 ships we'll also be concentrating on big ticket apps like
- Quark 3, Illustrator 5.5 and Photoshop 3 as well as various scientific
- Mac-only software like NIH Image. We put time into games because they
- make good showcases for the speed of Executor (or they will, when the
- public can see how we do on a linearly mapped framebuffer).
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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