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- >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Olinsky <crolinsky@vassar.edu> writes:
- In article <v01540b00ad92b4fa2509@[143.229.144.59]> crolinsky@vassar.edu (Craig Olinsky) writes:
-
-
- >> I'm disappointed in the idea that E3 will still not allow the
- >> true MacOS to be placed on top of it. If ARDI is planning a
- >> Win95 specific version, that could be AFTER the MacOS can be
- >> placed on top...it just seems that the DOS version is fine for
- >> Win95 and more folks might like to use System 7.5 before the
- >> Win95 version...
- >>
- >> Mike
-
- Craig> Actually, in some ways the a Windows 32-bit port would
- Craig> facilitate ARDI devoting more time to work on System 7.xx
- Craig> support in that the use of Windows APIs for hardware
- Craig> independence would reduce their time spent on issues of:
- Craig> system configuration, graphics card drivers/support (well,
- Craig> they are already using univbe, but...), sound card, SCSI
- Craig> drive/CD-ROM support, etc. that they have with E/D. There
- Craig> also is an opportunity for speed gains using WinG/DirectX,
- Craig> better use of memory, etc.
-
- Craig has hit the nail on the head. We spend ridiculously large
- amounts of time now messing around with DOS intracacies that we can
- avoid when we have a more advanced OS backing us up. In all liklihood
- we won't add support for things like networking to the DOS specific
- version and that will save us time because we'll be able to add
- support for networking to the other versions *much* quicker.
-
- Craig> Also, consider that a Windows 95 port is also a Windows NT
- Craig> port. E/D has not been able to run on NT until the latest
- Craig> bleeding edges, due to such things as NT's exclusionof DOS
- Craig> sound drivers, etc., due to various protection issues (i
- Craig> s'pose), etc.
-
- Right and even now under NT there are many problems.
-
- Craig> Unrelated Comments (well, related to Executor, but...)
- Craig> -------------------------------------------------------
-
- Craig> 1. Nice splash screen.
-
- Thanks. We have a few changes that will be made before it ships.
-
- Craig> 2. I noticed in the credits, the mention of a Japanese
- Craig> translation/(version?) of Executor....what is the status
- Craig> of this? What does it involve? Is it merely translation
- Craig> of documentation? dialogs and menu boxes? or is it
- Craig> planned to allow actual execution of kanjitalk applications
- Craig> & DBCS character entry (of course, this would involve
- Craig> worldscript extensions, which i assume are not one of the
- Craig> highest priorities at the moment).
-
- Currently it's only translation of various docs. We do hope to
- support WorldScript but that will only be done if either we have a
- sufficiently large revenue stream that we can take on that project
- without having to scale back our "system 7.x on Executor" project or
- if we can get funding for that project from a source other than our
- revenue stream. I think the latter is likely once E2 is more widely
- known.
-
- Craig> (At this point I am just VERY impressed with ARDI's work on
- Craig> exeuctor, but have only played with the demo because I have
- Craig> a mac and therefore no direct need for it. A version with
- Craig> Japanese language support (or even, eventually, the ability
- Craig> to drop in worldscript) would be, in my mind much
- Craig> preferable (and cheaper!) than purchasing Apples Japanese
- Craig> Language Kit or KanjiTalk/Japanese 7.x)
-
- Craig> 3. I'm probably completely off here (and not that too many
- Craig> people are running it), but would there be any benefit to
- Craig> setting up powermac-compatibility by producing a version of
- Craig> Executor on this RISC-Based Windows NT?
-
- You mean develop a version of Executor for a PPC based Mac running
- Windows NT and let the native PPC processor execute the PPC code?
- We'll probably do that although that probably won't be our primary PPC
- development environment. I haven't seen it yet, but I would guess
- that we'll do our development under Linux/PPC. In addition to using a
- native PPC processor to run PPC code we plan to emulate the PPC as
- well.
-
- Craig> 4. Has anyone tried to run SoftWindows under Executor? It
- Craig> would be interesting to compare the speed of Windows apps
- Craig> under SoftWin under Executor to those on a real mac...PLUS
- Craig> if it ran at a reasonable speed it would be an additional
- Craig> option for running Dos/Windows applications under Linux.
- Craig> (Rather funny too: A unix-"clone" running a mac-"clone"
- Craig> running a windows "clone".)
-
- I know people have gotten SoftPC, SoftWindow's precursor to run. I
- don't know about SoftWindows. I'm sure it would be too slow to be of
- much use to the Linux community -- they already have dosemu and WINE.
-
- Craig> Pardon my grammar. This is my break from an all-night
- Craig> thesis writing session.
-
- No problem. I tend to skimp when posting news anyway. Writing well
- takes too much time.
-
- Craig> Craig Olinsky crolinsky@vaxsar.vassar.edu
-
- Craig> --still waiting for a macintosh port of executor *grin*
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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