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- >>>> "Sarinee" == Sarinee Achavanuntakul <sachavan@scunix4.harvard.edu> writes:
-
- Sarinee> To continue this useful thread, the following are
- Sarinee> games that run fine in DOS Executor, at least on my
- Sarinee> machine:
- [munch]
- Sarinee> Deliverance --screen updates slow though
-
- Deliverance is one of many Mac games that bypass QuickDraw and write
- directly to screen memory. Executor can run such games, but they tend
- to run slowly on most system configurations. On some configurations,
- however, Executor is able to give those games direct access to your
- video card and they're really fast. Deliverance Demo *smokes* on my
- Mach32/PCI P90.
-
- Here's what DOS users need to do for top graphics performance:
-
- 1) Make sure you have a decent SVGA card. If you have an old
- ISA VGA card, Executor's graphics just aren't going to be fast.
- PCI and VLB are your best bet.
-
- 2) Download and install UniVBE 5.1a:
- ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/uvbe51a.zip
- This is a good shareware "universal" video driver that lets
- Executor take advantage of some important features on many SVGA
- boards. The most important is getting a "linear frame buffer".
-
- 3) Make sure you have the latest Executor/DOS (1.99p6).
-
- 4) Run Executor/DOS under plain DOS, *not* under Windows or Warp.
- If you've installed UniVBE and it supports your video card,
- "executor -info" should say it detects a VESA-compatible
- video driver, VBE 2.0.
-
- This won't work for everyone, but it will work for many people. If
- you can get the fast graphics working, Space Madness, Apeiron,
- Deliverance, Swoop, Solarian, etc. are quite playable.
-
- Executor/Linux/svgalib users will also be able to run these games at
- full speed if they have a board that's well supported by svgalib
- (e.g. Mach32 and some Cirrus chips). If you're running a 1.2.x kernel
- be sure to pick up the kernel patch from our ftp site. In addition to
- some mouse driver patches it also fixes an off-by-one error in the
- kernel timer code that can cause some arcade games to run too slowly.
- Linus has added our patch to the later 1.3.x kernels.
-
- -Mat
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