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Re: Executor Version 1.3 (or even 1.2f? :)





On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:

> Hi Chad,
> 
> What happened is that we had an agreement with some investors to provide us  
> with a certain amount of money in a certain amount of time, or so we thought.   
> We eventually got the money, but it wasn't when we thought it would be, so  
> the most opportune time for us to build a copy of 1.3 and send it to all our  
> existing 1.x customers came and went without us having the capital necessary  
> to do the duplication and mass mailing.

	Actually, I'm not worried about the mass mailing - I'd just like 
a transmog file (even if it was officilly just an experimental version 
1.2f (witness the similie in my Subject)... 

	I'd rather see the money from a mass mailing go to finish 
Executor 2.0, and then get it to run system 7.5 (I can't wait for that - 
then Executor would hopefully look and feel EXACTLY like a Mac!)

> On the other hand, many of the things that made 1.99x less attractive than  
> what would have been 1.3 have either already been fixed, or will be fixed  
> soon.  I can't speak about the games, but the Word bug that you mention is  

	Sounds good.  I'm thinking about a certain game "pararena" which 
was very usable under 1.2e but was hurt badly by the color quickdraw in 
1.99x.  It looked like the bitblt handling was slower (even in B&W mde).

	That and I seem to like B&W Macs (if only they made new ones 
which were FAST... The old 68000 macs are too slow for me... :)

> well known and should be fixed for 1.99i.  If we hadn't had so much sickness  
> and vacation time over the last couple months, it would be fixed by now.
> 
	Good!  I'd like to be able to really use MacWord again...  

	(Oh, no, another bug report...)

	I tried running the 1.99h demo under Linux, but it ate up 24 MB 
and went into UMSDOS swap space (it brought this system to it's knees!).  
This is a 486DX1/50 with 32 MB ram...  I'm using Linux 1.1.83 and 
Slackware 2.1 with XFree 3.1.  I'll try an earlier kernel and seeing what 
happens.  If there's any option switch I can try, I'd do it...  

	Thanks!

	- Chad Page

> 	--Cliff
> 	ctm@ardi.com
> 
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 21:36:50 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Executor Version 1.3 (or even 1.2f? :)
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> 
> 	I remember a few months ago there were plans to merge the 
> 
> executor 1.2e source tree with the new synthetic CPU, and release a 
> 
> version 1.3.
> 
> 	I'd still like to have a copy of 1.3 (if it's possible to make 
> 
> one...).  I'm wondering why it hasn't been released (IMHO, some stuff 
> 
> such as word 5.0 and some games ran better or more reliabily under 1.2e 
> 
> than 1.99x and I'd like to see that merged with the fast CPU!)
> 
> 	I think the original B&W video code is a bit faster under some 
> 
> applications than the color one, and I'd like to be able to use both.
> 
> 	(My problem with Word 5.0 is that after some dialogs the UI 
> 
> crashes - this is under 1.99h, and it's the About Word and the Summary 
> 
> Info dialog.  The system just hangs after those, but Alt-Shift-5 still 
> 
> works.)
> 
> 	Thanks!
> 
> 	- Chad Page
> 
> 


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