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On Friday March 8 Cliff wrote....


> 
> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen P Lee <splee@news.sfu.ca> writes:
> In article <4h5q3e$kjh@morgoth.sfu.ca> splee@news.sfu.ca (Stephen P Lee) writes:
> 
> 
>     Stephen> I am trying to run IntelliDraw in Executor 1.99q7 under
>     Stephen> Linux. It seems to start fine and things look okay until
>     Stephen> I resize the screen using the bottom right corner
>     Stephen> button. A larger screen results in a strange pattern of
>     Stephen> colors that obsure what should just be white. Changing
>     Stephen> the degree of magnification does nothing to remove the
>     Stephen> color pattern. Is this a bug?
> 
> It's a bug, although it's not one we knew about because we don't have
> a copy of IntelliDraw in our testing library.
> 
>     Stephen> If IntelliDraw is not usable yet under Executor what
>     Stephen> other reasonably good drawing programs will work?
> 
> I believe Illustrator 5.5 works nicely if you hide the hyphenation
> files.  FreeHand 4.0 appears to work well.  MacDraw Pro has some
> quirks but may be servicable.  I'm not sure about Canvas.
> 
>     Stephen> Thanks!  Stephen
> 
>     Stephen> -- Stephen P. Lee Office: (604) 291-4291 Department of
>     Stephen> Biological Sciences Fax: (604) 291-3496 Simon Fraser
>     Stephen> University E-mail: Stephen_p_lee@sfu.ca Burnaby, BC,
>     Stephen> Canada. V5A 1S6
> 
> --Cliff
> ctm@ardi.com
> 

I have recently tried MacDraw Pro under q8 and found the same color
pattern appear that Stephen describes above for Intellidraw
when I tried to resize the screen larger with the buton in the
lower right of the window.  Also found a second copy of the stuff
at the left of the window, in the expanded area of the window rather
than more of the drawing as should be there.  On my machine I can't 
reliably start MacDraw II or MacDraw Pro more than once in any 
Executor q8 session.  If I try, Executor crashes back to DOS or hangs
the machine.  

I am getting very solid (though not absolutely perfect) performance
from MacDraw II v1.1 under Executor 1.99p8.  No funny restart
problems and almost all MacDraw II features work as on a real Mac
so for the moment, I am settled on version p8 of Executor.

I am running Executor directly under DOS and use an 800 x 600 screen.
I am using the following hardware:

                CPU     AMD 80486DX-4 (120 MHz)
	       BIOS	AWARD
	   Chip Set	Opti		
                RAM     16 MEGs
         Video Card     S3-805 by Xing
                        Executor Info says Vesa 1.2 compliant
      2 Hard Drives     540 M and 850 M, divided into 4 Logical DOS
                        Drives and 2 Linux drives.
                DOS     6.2

I have also tested Executor and found the same results with a somewhat 
less capable system described below just to make sure I am reporting
generic Executor problems:

                CPU     80486-33 DX
                RAM     8 MEGs
       Video Driver     Unknown; E -info says Vesa 1.2 compliant
       1 Hard Drive     340 M   in 1 Logical Drive
                DOS     6.2


Dick Frey