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- Here in comp.emulators.mac.executor, delliott@bud.indirect.com (delliott)
- spake unto us, saying:
-
- > Quite the trick to run the Mac on Dos or Windows. Can it run one
- > program or run all.
-
- Pardon the brusqueness on my part, but have you bothered to read any
- of the messages in this newsgroup at all?
-
- Executor is a very nice trick (emulates a 68LC040 in software), and
- it'll run in Linux and on NextStep as well as DOS (and under OS/2 VDMs
- as well).
-
- There are a large number of newer programs it doesn't run, since it
- was developed completely independently from APple's ROMs, and since
- its System 7.x support is very limited yet, but I've been able to
- run a fairly large number of programs here. An informal list is as
- follows (I don't make any guarantees that they work completely, but
- I've played with all of these to some extent over the past several
- months):
-
- Utilities:
-
- BBEdit Lite 3.0, Easy Errors 1.1, MacDOS 3.0, TexEdit 2.7.2,
- Speedometer 1.0, Speedometer 3.2.3, Stop The Madness 0.851,
- MacBreadBoard 1.1 Demo, Stuffit Expander 3.5.2, Globe 1.2, BinHex 5.0,
- NIH Image 1.55, LC Anim 1.5, NSCA Paledit 1.1, Desktop Textures Vol 1,
- Compact Pro 1.5, Disk Directory 0.9
-
- Games:
-
- Backgammon Freeware, Hexmines, Risk, Monopoly 4.03a, Stratego 0.95,
- Shatterball 0.27, Glypha III 1.0.1 (with sound!), Lemmings Demo (with
- sound!), Darkwood 2.5, Danger Swamps (original), Brickles Plus 3.0,
- Mine 1.0, 1000 Miles, MacYahtzee, Lazilife 2.0c, Phraze Craze,
- MacGolf 1.0, Test of Minds, Reversi, Missle Command, MacPong IIa,
- Ingemar's Skiing Game 9.9u, Star Roids 7.0, PacMan, Minesweeper 1.3,
- Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Shufflepuck.
-
- I just picked up a Walnut Creek CD-ROM called "Ultra Mac Games" that
- has 1001 games on it, and I also have _Inside MacGames April 1995_
- demo CD-ROM with stuff on it, so I'll be finding out more about things
- that will or will not work fairly soon. :-)
-
- (Yes, Executor/DOS handles Mac CD-ROMs on a PC <grin>).
-
- Why not go to http://www.ardi.com and read the FAQ. After you've been
- made aware of Executor's nature, capabilities, and current limitations,
- our conversation here will be a lot more constructive.
-
- > In other words, is your product the real deal or little more than a
- > screen saver?
-
- Works pretty well for me as a 1024x768x256 game platform, which is all
- I really use Executor for at this point in time. But others here do
- real work with it. See my above list of programs -- it's one HELL of
- a screen saver, let me tell you! :-)
-
- > Also, how much RAM is required in addition to the application to run
- > like a MAC? 8? 16? 24?
-
- Executor's requirements are somewhat user-configurable through the use
- of command-line switches, and it might depend to some extent on the
- version you're using (NextStep, Linux, DOS) and other factors. But it
- ran here in 8MB fairly well, and now with 20MB it's very fast.
-
- --
- -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@skypoint.com >>>---> Bloomington, MN
- Written offline using PC Yarn + Yes + TDE in a Warp VDM
- Images upon my screen, flicker brightly inbetween...
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