Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/linux/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.96/text1675.txt

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I'm considering purchasing a notebook computer.  This is the CTX EZ350D,
based on an Intel 486DX4/100 chip.  Since I run some Mac programs, I
would definitely be running Executor on it.  More than likely, I'll be
running Executor/DOS (either under Windows 95 or under straight MS-DOS),
although I would be interested in hearing whether E/Linux will run under
it (since I MAY be running either Linux or FreeBSD on it, whenever I get
more hard drive space).

I'm primarily concerned with the built-in video.  It supposedly contains
a VESA video accelerator with 1 MB VRAM.  I don't know if it's VESA 1.x
or 2.0 compliant; if it's 2.0, I'd be definitely interested to find out
whether the linear framebuffer will work; if it isn't 2.0, I would want
to run UniVBE on it.  I'd also be interested in whether or not it can do
higher resolutions; although I'd rather run at 640x480, I might want to
go to 800x600 sometime.

I'm also interested in the sound, since (at least, according to the
spec's I have) it has a 16-bit soundcard built in.  Unfortunately, I
don't have any information whether it's Sound Blaster compatible or not.
Will it run with Executor's sound code?

And, lastly, this unit has one of those newfangled touch-pads instead of
a traditional trackball, mouse, or "pencil eraser" (that's what I call
them; I mean those IBM ThinkPad-style devices.)  Do I assume correctly
that, generally speaking, if it has a DOS-mode mouse driver with it, and
if this driver were loaded, Executor would use it properly?

Please let me know by e-mail and/or the list.  Thanks!

Donald Burr [[e-mail]], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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