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[changes from previous versions are now in docs/Changes.*]
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The file elinux199X.tar (where X is a lower case letter optionally
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followed by a digit) contains Executor/Linux, a commercial Macintosh
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emulator which can be used in a 10 minute time limited demo mode.
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Right now we have no linux specific manual, but we have a linux
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section in our FAQ.
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To install executor, just type "make install". You will need to have
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write permission to create /usr/local/bin/executor,
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/usr/local/bin/executor-svga and /usr/local/lib/executor.
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Additional information is available in the docs subdirectory of the
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directory that contains this readme file. Be sure to read the
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"executor_faq.txt" (answers to frequently asked questions) if you have
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trouble with Executor. The file "ernst_oud.txt" contains information
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about Executor/DOS, written from a DOS users perspective that still
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might be useful to users of Executor/Linux.
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If you would like to be able to submit bug reports in the format that
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we use internally, you can use the "send-pr" distribution contained in
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"send-pr.tar" to build the send-pr program. More information is
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included in that package.
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Included in /usr/local/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume are some sample
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programs that you can run. NOTE: some of these are shareware, and
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ARDI had not paid your shareware fee for them. If you continue to use
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Executor, you should either delete the shareware items, or register
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them.
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Executor assumes your floppy drive is /dev/fd0 and your CD-ROM drive
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is /dev/cdrom and will need permission to access those devices if you
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want Executor to be able to read and write floppies and read CD-ROMs.
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If you're bold, you can even hook up a Macintosh formatted SCSI
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disk and access that under Executor by adjusting your "MacVolumes"
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environment variable:
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$ export MacVolumes=/dev/sd1
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$ executor
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This assumes "/dev/sd1" is a Macintosh formatted SCSI disk and that
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the permissions on /dev/sd1 allow you to read, if you want the volume
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to be read only, or read and write, if that's what you want to do
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under Executor.
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If you have permission to access /dev/fd0 and /dev/cdrom, then those
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devices will automatically be examined by Executor to see if they
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contain Macintosh formatted media. If they do, they will be available
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under Executor.
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The 1.99<x> versions of Executor are "experimental". We hope to have
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Executor in beta in January of 1996 and officially released in
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February or March.
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In addition to the text files in the doc subdirectory mentioned above,
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another good source of information about Executor is the Usenet
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newsgroup "comp.emulators.mac.executor", or the Executor interest
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mailing list. The newsgroup and the mailing list are connected via a
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bidirectional gateway.
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To join the mailing list, send e-mail to "executor-request@ardi.com"
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or "executor-digest-request@ardi.com" with a blank subject line and a
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body that says "subscribe". With the first address, you'll receive
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e-mail everytime someone sends anything to the mailing list. With the
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digest form, you'll receve e-mail only once a day with all the
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previous day's traffic bundled into one digest.
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You can then send messages to the entire group by sending to
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"executor@ardi.com". Some of the people on the list have been using
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Executor under NEXTSTEP for a couple of years and under DOS for a
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year, and of course we closely follow that mailing list, even though
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we don't directly administer it.
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Before 2.0 goes to press, pricing for non time-limited versions of
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Executor/Linux is $49 for students, $49 for educational institutions,
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faculty and staff and $99 for everyone else. The $49 student fee also
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entitles the student to run Executor/DOS as well. The educatonal fee
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does not include that. That price does cover all the 1.99<x> releases
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and the 2.0 CD-ROM release when it's finished.
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Again, read "executor_faq.txt" for more information.
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The Linux version of Executor now has rudimentary sound support.
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These programs are known to work well with this support (although the
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volume is not adjustable): Apeiron, Maelstrom, Swoop, Rescue, SimAnt,
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KidPix2, Prince of Persia 1, Blood Suckers, Space Madness, and
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Spaceward Ho. Many of those games are only fun if SVGAlib can
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linearly map your video board into memory. There are many other
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programs that should work fairly soon.
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The primary person to thank is Pat LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu> , and
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the secondary entity to thank is The Jin <jin@atype.com>. Pat and Jin
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are good friends of Mat Hostetter and Cotton Seed, two of ARDI's most
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talented engineers. Pat offered to design a nice low-level sound API
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that we can use to implement sound on a variety of platforms and also
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do the Linux implementation, with some help from Jin and Cotton and
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Mat.
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In order for sound to work under Executor/Linux, you must be using
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kernel 1.3.45 or greater. In addition, we've found that the
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svgalib-elf version totally hangs kernel 1.3.45 over here, so you may
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have to use the svgalib-aout version if you have kernel 1.3.45.
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Thanks for your interest.
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--Cliff
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Please address questions to questions@ardi.com and bug reports
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to bugs@ardi.com. Our web site is http://www.ardi.com/ and we
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accept anonymous ftp connections at ftp.ardi.com.
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