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Re: BleedingEdge/dos199o3.zip



>>>>> "Wong" == Wong Chung Pak <oscarw@HK.Super.NET> writes:

    Wong> 	1) After pressed <Enter> in the welcome screen, some
    Wong> text is displayed overlay with the welcome screen, it may be
    Wong> some error message but I cannot catch as it is too fast to
    Wong> be disappear

Yes, you are absolutely correct.  Due to a hasty release, 1.99o3
always prints out many of the debugging messages you'd only see with
"-debug 10".  We'll release 1.99o4 soon; to work around this, you can
do:

executor > junk

so the output doesn't foul your screen.  1.99o3 has various nasties
like this, so I recommend that people *NOT* pick up 1.99o3, and
instead wait for 1.99o4 or 1.99p.

    Wong> 3) The shareware version of Ultima 3 cannot be run.  When in
    Wong> the welcome screen, some error message is displayed and the
    Wong> last line is about color something like "log2 color<=3" and
    Wong> a window with a button without any text is displayed.  After
    Wong> pressing the button, exit to dos!  May be some System 7 call
    Wong> is not implement with executor which required by this game.

Actually, Ultima 3 is scaling a 32 bit per pixel pixmap.  Our scaling
code currently only supports up to 8 bits per pixel.  This should be
easy to fix.  I solved this game as a kid on my Apple ][...it would be
fun to get it running under Executor.

-Mat


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