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On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Lyle Green Arnot Manzo wrote:
> Hi, I'm Ecuadorian and I don't speak English but
> I'll try, the best I can:
Your Enlish is pretty good. I understood your message almost perfectly!
> I Dowmload your "Executor 1.99p," (I think), the last Monday
> because I like the idea, have a Mac on my Pc Intel DX4/ 100 Mhz,
> I was dowmloading the software about 3 hours, because The host have
> only 2400 bps modems, I think it was worth it (vale realmente la pena)
> but it have serius problems.
The latest version is 1.99q and it's a little better.
> First, I can't execute the "inits" or another drivers what the best mac
> software needs, then I have another problem to run software on the
> "EXECUTOR". What can I think , if the executor demos are slower and
> somethimes (if not always) it failed.
A DX4 should have relatively good speed. Do you have enough RAM?
What operating system do you use? If you were running under Windows
it would be probably slower. You should use it in plain DOS or if in
Win '95 shut down in DOS mode.
> This is really slower, Your documents say it's so fast how the macs
> but how a person here said, the new speed test (I don't remember the
> name) is many times slower than you said, and I think this is true!.
The processor speed is okay. The graphics is what's probably slow.
It all depends on your graphics card. Did you try UniVBE (available
in the DOS directory) to emulate a VBE 2.0 graphics card. That, for
some people, makes executor work much faster.
> Then a friend who had many Macs (duo, quadra), he saw the executor
> and really laughed, many days after he still laughed, the applications
> who run are many less (pocas), without inits and the MacOs SYSTEM 7
> it have not future(not the browser), He lauch because he'd "Soft Windows"
> by Insignia Solutions on his mac, it really works!, I like this software
> it have no problems.
The newest version has relatively neat System 7 support for well-behaved
programs. It also has fuzzy fizzy sound that your friend will hate but
all of us love!
Soft Windows has licenses to all the source code and stuff,
and compared with executor's hardware emulation, is slow.
> I think before you distribute the software it first have to emulate
> the processor and then the person install the system 6-7 (MacOs) not
> the "Browser", you can't live giving "BETA VERSIONS".
You don't understand. There is a REAL synthetic CPU under executor that
flawlessly emulates a Motorola 68040. Because Executor is a CLEAN-ROOM
project, the programmers work all day trying to guess what is in the
undocumented Mac ROMS. The Browser can be made to have improvements,
but the real goal is to run programs, right?
Executor runs quite a few of programs very well. MS Word, for instance,
works and people who use these applications at work could use the
compatibility. Some of the people here love the old games. I also have
an Apple ][e emulator. Useless? nah. It has some good games and a good
way to begin BASIC programming.
> I NEVER PAY FOR A SOFTWARE ($99, YOUR HAVE TO BE CRAZY) WHO NOW DON'T
> WORK FINE, FIRST THIS LOOK GOOD BUT AT THE END IS A REAL "TOY".
It's a toy for some people. For some it's not. That's the goal of the
demo: to allow testing of programs.
> I HOPE ANOTHER COMPANIES WORK ON THIS KIND OF SOFTWARE, I LIKE TO
> KNOW WHAT COMPANIES WORK IN THIS SOFTWARE (AND IF IT WORK).
You wish. Executor has spend the last 9 (or is it 10 now) working on
this program and nobody can copy it without licensing the Mac ROMS and
also getting the synthetic CPU from Mat Hostetter.
> The Demo what I tried, have a 10 min. time, with your faster software
> the executor finish first his trial time before I can't execute the
> demos (lemmings for example) PLEASE THINK IN IT.
Huh? Maybe something's wrong with your computer. I can easily start
Lemmings on my copy.
> I WANT TO KNOW WHEN THE LAST COMPLETE AND WORKING FINE VERSION WILL
> BE READY????
> YOU WILL HAVE A WINDOWS 95 VERSION????
2.0 is scheduled for March, (I think). They're planning to have a Win '95
version after 2.0 comes out.
-- Philip Zeyliger
Registered E/D & E/L User
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