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- Hi Folks,
-
- Executor/DOS 1.2e is out (exexp12e.zip), but instead of it being in
- the normal place, you have to pick it up from swcp.com in the
- "pub/tmp" directory (remember to use BINARY mode). It's not clear
- whether the ardi directory will remain on ftp.cs.unm.edu, but I can't
- get in to modify it now (5am Friday morning). The site "swcp.com" is
- real slow and will even be more so if tons of people hit it to get
- exexp12e.zip, so if UNM CS *has* kicked us off, I'll try to find a
- new ARDI repository ASAP. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
-
- 1.2e runs under Windows and OS/2. I can't believe how much trouble
- it took to get back this functionality which we lost when we went up
- to 1.2c. The problem was not that we added broken code -- we didn't.
- We just ran into a bug in the DOS extender that we hadn't seen before
- which required me to learn much more about DOS, 80x86s, and protected
- mode programming than I had planned.
-
- For whatever reason, 1.2e won't run the game "1000 miles", but that's
- the only step backwards that we're aware of between 1.2e and any
- other previous version of Executor. If that's the only problem you
- find while testing it, we'll change the splash screen a little bit,
- make a corresponding demo version and release 1.2e to the general
- public as 1.3. We'll be sending it free of charge to all
- Executor/DOS 1.x customers who sent in their registration forms.
- We'll also include a note about the state of 2.0.
-
- Speaking of which, a couple of weekends ago we merged the latest 1.x
- sources with all our color mods. The resultant version of Executor
- isn't currently as robust as 1.2e, nor even as robust as the
- 1.2+color mods version that preceeded it and it won't run under
- Windows or OS/2, but is neat to see, since it runs in color. If you
- really want to take a peek now, rather than wait until it's a little
- more stable, pick up the file "execolor.mog" (in pub/tmp on swcp.com)
- and use the transmog program from exexp12e.zip to convert a
- production version of 1.2 into a color version. The command line
- you'll want is:
-
- transmog -f execolor.mog
-
- Remember, we've already fixed a bunch of the bugs that are in the
- color version that transmog will create. I'll try to get a better
- version ftpable once we have a better site to use than swcp.com. I'm
- *much* more intested in peoples 1.2e comments than hearing about any
- bugs in the color version -- we know they're there.
-
- --Cliff
-
-