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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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