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Re: Ultimate Doom/Finder/FPU



>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:
In article <31C54929.1F0E@earthlink.net> Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:


    Daniel> Executor Rules! I have a 100MHz 686 32mb RAM system, and I
    Daniel> have been tempted recently to buy a Mac as well. A friend
    Daniel> calls me up and tells me about Executor and the same day
    Daniel> I'm playing Ultimate Doom demo 1.0.1 for the Macintosh!
    Daniel> Very decent speed, too. The program is amazingly quick
    Daniel> with VESA 2.0 support loaded.

Thanks.  Executor 2 is faster than Executor 1 was and we hope to
continue the trend with Executor 3.

    Daniel> Just a couple of quick questions. I remember that when I
    Daniel> had a Mac with System 6 I played with the Finder as an
    Daniel> Application, replacing it with other programs (like
    Daniel> Hypercard) launching it as a separate program, etc. Could
    Daniel> I load the Finder for 6.0.7 as an app or replace the
    Daniel> Browser with it?

There are ways you can replace Browser, in theory, but since Finder
won't run it will just cripple you.  I recommend *not* playing with
Browser, although we'll soon release the source to Browser and you can
then hack that up if you want (unfortunately that will need to be done
on a real Mac, since Think C won't link under Executor).

    Daniel> Also, is there any plan to add FPU emulation to Executor?
    Daniel> This would be much quicker than using a Mac FPU emulator.

Not in the near future.  Our high priority tasks are (off the top of my head,
and in no particular order):

	code reorganization
	ports to Win32 and OS/2
	serial support
	network support
	INIT and CDEV support (esp. QuickTime and ATM)
	bug fixes
	performance increases

On the other hand, one aspect of the code reorg, assuming we implement
it, will allow programs that use SANE to run much faster.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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