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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA09801 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 03:47:31 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id EAA05662; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 04:50:34 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0s4R5p-000YbDC; Thu, 27 Apr 95 04:46 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0s4R5p-00000BC; Thu, 27 Apr 95 04:46 MDT Message-Id: <m0s4R5p-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 04:46 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: How's 1.99m doing? In-Reply-To: <9504270834.AA11683@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> References: <9504270834.AA11683@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> writes: Tim> How is 1.99m coming along? We still have a little ways to go. However, this week I've been working on paperwork for some new investors, which is one of the reasons for the delay. Tim> I tried the DOS version of 1.99l, and I'd dearly love to get Tim> the new file manager bit for my registered Linux copy! Is it Tim> possible for me to copy the file manager from my DOS demo to Tim> my Linux version? Yes, you can do that, although you'll then have to run the browser by hand, since 1.99k doesn't automatically detect it and run it. Probably easier to wait for 1.99m, though. In addition, the 1.99l browser will not properly cross filesystem mount points which can be quite annoying (that's already fixed over here). Tim> Can the linux version read .hfv files, or will I have to go Tim> via a Mac floppy? E/L can read .hfv files. You can either copy them into Executor's library directory (probably /usr/local/lib/executor, or you set the MacVolumes environment variable to give the complete path of the directory containing the .hfv files, perhaps like this: export MacVolumes=/dos/executor Tim> Also, the SVGA Linux version sounds like a good idea... the Tim> Linux version is certainly measurably slower than the DOS Tim> version and the DOS version updates the screen more Tim> accurately, although that is doubtless due to X, so should Tim> disappear with an SVGAlib version. The screen update speed is something we can't do much about under X. We use the shared memory extensions when we can, and that helps things out a bit, but there's just no way to get directly at the frame buffer in X. So you're right, SVGAlib will greately speed things up. However, the screen color accuracy should be the same under X and DOS *if* you use the -private-cmap flag when running Executor/Linux. That flag will also make some graphic accesses faster, the fade up in Lemmings, for example. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com