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- The short answer is "no, there is no manual." There is a manual which
- went with version 1.0, but it's so outdated as to be almost totally
- useless. Executor's user interface has changed a lot since then --
- fortunately, it has gotten friendlier rather than more complex.
-
- To get started, fire up Executor and take a look at how it's set up.
- It's a lot like a real Mac. To open a folder, just double-click on it.
- To close it again, click on the box in the corner of its window. To
- start one of the demo programs (Lemmings is a popular choice),
- double-click on it. It will start just as it would on a real Mac,
- with pull-down menus to control the game and let you quit when you get
- tired of playing.
-
- Executor has a hotband across the top of the screen where you can keep
- the most frequently used files of each type. It's controlled by the
- set of small boxes on the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. The
- sideways oval will show you your directory structure from the top,
- including not only your Mac volumes but your DOS drives and any
- floppies or CDs which may be loaded. The other boxes will bring
- different sets of things into the hotband -- you'll learn what the
- heiroglyphs in the boxes are supposed to represent as you experiment.
-
- After you've goofed around with the demos for a while, you'll probably
- want to install your own games and maybe even do something useful.
- Executor can run programs directly from high-density Mac floppies, but
- this is very slow. It's quicker to copy the programs to one of the
- simulated Mac volumes on your hard disk. To do this, put the
- high-density floppy in your drive and select "Check for floppies" from
- the pull-down menu under "File." Now select the overview of all
- volumes by clicking on the sideways oval as above -- the floppy you
- just inserted should be one of your choices. Double-click on the
- floppy icon to open it, open the volume you want to put it in, and
- drag the program icon from the floppy window to the window of the hard
- disk volume.
-
- Sooner or later you'll need to make a new Mac volume or two to contain
- your files. To do this, you need to use the makehfv.exe utility at
- the DOS prompt (or the makehfv utility under Linux). The syntax is
-
- makehfv newvol.hfv NewVolume 100
-
- where newvol.hfv will be the name of the DOS file, NewVolume will be
- the name of the file as Executor sees it, and 100 indicates that your
- volume will use 51200 bytes.
-
- That should be enough to get you started. A lot of specific questions
- you might have (about downloaded Mac files, for instance) are answered
- in the FAQ in your docs subdirectory, and you can always write to
- questions@ardi.com if you have any trouble.
-
- -Melissa
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