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- >>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
- In article <Pine.BSD.3.92.960610232831.24403B-100000@miso.wwa.com> "WILLIAM J. MILLER" <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
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- Bill> At work (I work in a software store, and we get bored when
- Bill> nobody's in the store, so.....) we were playing with
- Bill> Executor (on a Compaq Pentium 100 with 16 megs, 4X, cheap
- Bill> Vid. Card, Cirrus Logic I think), and none of the programs
- Bill> we tried worked.
-
- Ouch. Reading ahead it appears none except PegLeg worked and that
- many of the apps in question needed functionality that we don't yet
- provide, but still, Ouch.
-
- Bill> Dramatica Writers Dream Kit (This program, had it worked,
- Bill> most likely would have made one of the guys their license
- Bill> Executor), died with something about not being able to load
- Bill> a file.
-
- If you can provide the exact error message, that will help. If you
- can tell us where we can download a demo version (if one is available)
- that will help more. Were you putting the programs that you were
- trying to run into an HFV, or running them off the DOS filesystem?
- When we map to DOS there are some things that might not work properly,
- so HFVs are usually better.
-
- Bill> ARPLE (Apple software for sales info, also includes lotsa
- Bill> demo stuff), won't run because of no Quick Time, in fact the
- Bill> installer (which doesn't need Quick Time) dies.
-
- Although I'd like every program to work, the installer for something
- that can't work is not too high of a priority. Of course I'd always
- like more information than "the installer ... dies".
-
- Bill> PegLeg (game, don't recall who makes it) seems to work
- Bill> beautifully, albeit choppy.
-
- Using Scitech Display Doctor (formerly known as UniVBE) should make it
- work much faster, although you'll need to restart in DOS mode. The
- choppiness is due to the frame buffer not being linearly mapped.
-
- Bill> Act for Mac (latest version), wouldn't run.
-
- More specifics always help.
-
- Bill> Strata TypeStudio (or something along those lines) wouldnn't
- Bill> run (most likely FPU problem)
-
- Bill> 3D XT v 2.5 (all the info I have) wouldn't run.
-
- Bill> These last two probably required FPU units, because both
- Bill> have to do with 3D renedering.
-
- Sometimes programs come in two flavors, one requiring an FPU, one not.
- I know Swivel-3D is like this. In Swivel-3D's case you can use the
- non-FPU version fine.
-
- Bill> I think thats everything we tried tonight, if I come up with
- Bill> anything else, will let you know. On all the ones that
- Bill> died, I could see something flickering on the screen, like
- Bill> its going from Graphics mode to text mode, back to graphics,
- Bill> most likely a dump of crash information.
-
- Aha. If you say "executor > crashmsg" then when Executor dies the
- crash message will be saved in the file "crashmsg". That infomation
- can be very useful.
-
- Bill> I hope this helps someone (ARDI) out there. One of the
- Bill> things that really kills our testing is this 10 minute
- Bill> limit.
-
- My recollection was that you had already licensed a copy of Executor.
- If that's the case then when E2 comes out you'll get the E2 CD-ROM and
- as long as you're only using it in one place at a time (and you make
- sure people don't copy it), you can take it to work and fiddle around
- with it there.
-
- Bill> Does anyone know if KPT Bryce 2.0 works, or is that
- Bill> something we need to try?
-
- Needs an FPU, I believe.
-
- Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
-
- Thanks for the information.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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