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Re: Anyone gotten A-10 or F-18 2.0 demos to work??



In article <4dh67k$39q@orion.cybercom.net>,
   churchill@cybercom.net (Red October) wrote:
>parrisc@mail.auburn.edu (Scott L Parrish) wrote:
>
>>Adam Roach (exuadam@cnn.exu.ericsson.se) wrote:
>>: Red October <churchill@cybercom.net> wrote:
>>: >PS- does anyone know what a P90 with 16 megs of RAM running Executor
>>: >might be comparable to in Mac terms? Thanks.
>
>>: Something like a 30MHz 68040, if I understand correctly.
>
>>I own a 25 MHz 68040 and a P75 and I have a really hard time believeing 
>>this.  As a test you could take the marthon or marathon II demo's and 
>>press "?" while playing the game.  Post the high and low framerates here.
>
>>Scott
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>>Scott L. Parrish        Graduate Student
>>Dept. Of Zoology        parrisc@mail.auburn.edu         WAR EAGLE!
>>Auburn University       parrisc@freenet.fsu.edu, scottp@iris.ag.auburn.edu
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>Actually, I read someplace (after I posted this) that a P90 with 16 MB
>of RAM was comparable to a 45Mhz. Quadra 610. I'm quite sure that's
>what they said. How fast is that for a Mac, as I have no idea?
>
>
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>Red October
>churchill@cybercom.net
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>"Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on 
>earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second 
>is a cow that has been dropped out of a 
>helicopter. How long, traveling at top speed, 
>will it take the cow to travel 360 feet?"
>             -Dave Barry Slept Here
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As a long time MAC & PC user, the CPU rates stated here and elsewhere - at 
least according to Speedometer 3.23 are fairly accurate - but other than 
getting Speedometer, BinHex 5 and Compact Pro to work - I have not obtained a 
a lot of success to get Programs to work right.  Unfortunately for me, most of 
the programs that I want to run require System 7 - and that functionality 
(getting to run Sys 7 programs ) is not working 100 %.  The program is 
essentially emulating System 6.0.7 which Apple stopped shipping with their 
computers over 3 years ago.  I did get an old MAC chess program (Psion) to 
play chess but only at the instant response level.  The Speedometer indexes 
increase roughly 25% in DOS mode over Win95 - and on my 90 mhz machine that 
translated to a CPU index of 23 on Speedometer - roughly equalivent to a 25-30 
mhz 68040.  That index in quite impressive, the other indexes are nearly as 
impressive compared to 'real' MAC.  Considering that Apple has not assisted 
these folks in any way - this is an impressive piece of software.

The software runs without any control panels or inits - a 'real' mac user has 
many of these little programs at the tip of their finger tips - and of course 
it's not multi-processing aware - to run two applications; you must run it 
under windows and start it twice.  So it really doesn't have the  feel of a 
MAC - but hey - it plays that little Risk game  like a champ.

Mike


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