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- Hi Folks,
-
- I know it hasn't been long since we released 1.99q7 and that 1.99q7
- promised to help with the great Mac media accessing problems that some
- of you have been having, and that 1.99q7 helped some but not others,
- but 1.99q8 is now available for DOS, and it *doesn't* help with the
- great Mac media accessing problems.
-
- Basically the problems with Executor accessing Mac formatted floppies,
- hard disks and CD-ROMs are in my domain, and since 1.99q7 didn't fix
- all of the problems, I've had to go back to the drawing board. In the
- meantime, Mat has been working full-throttle and he's added two new
- pieces of functionality:
-
- by working around a bug in Windows NT, Executor/DOS now runs
- on that platform
-
- on systems where the VESA 2 driver shows that there are 24-bit
- DACs present, Executor uses them
-
- ftp://vorlon.mit.edu/pub/ARDI/BleedingEdge/DOS/exec19q8.zip is the
- best place to grap 1.99q8. After the other mirrors pick it up we'll
- adjust our Web pages to point to it, but you have to fetch it by hand
- until then.
-
- ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/BleedingEdge/DOS/exec19q8.zip is where it lives
- on our system, but we *greatly* encourage you to pick it up from
- vorlon.mit.edu.
-
- There will be no q8 release for non-DOS systems. There are a few bug
- fixes in 1.99q8, but we'll have 1.99q9 or 1.99r out fairly soon
- anyway.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
- Here's the beginning of the README associated with 1.99q8:
-
- exec19q8.zip contains a new executor.exe which brings 1.99q up to
- 1.99q8. There have not been many changes to Executor beyond 1.99q7,
- so don't expect many bugs to have been fixed. However, 1.99q8 has two
- features that some people will find handy:
-
- Executor/DOS 1.99q8 runs under Windows NT
-
- Executor/DOS 1.99q8 takes advantage of 24-bit DACs on systems
- that have 24-bit DACs and a VESA 2 driver
-
- NOTE: Executor/DOS under Windows NT is not able to access Mac
- formatted CD-ROMs or hard drives and floppy access sometimes results
- in a "ghost" floppy appearing. Executor normally uses a 1024 Hz clock
- internally to simulate a 60 Hz clock and schedule interrupts at
- millisecond granulatiry, but under Windows NT the 1024 Hz clock is not
- available, so an 18.2 Hz clock is used instead.
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