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To get started, fire up Executor and take a look at how it's set up.
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It's a lot like a real Mac. To open a folder, just double-click on it.
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To close it again, click on the box in the corner of its window. To
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start one of the demo programs (Lemmings is a popular choice),
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double-click on it. It will start just as it would on a real Mac,
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with pull-down menus to control the game and let you quit when you get
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tired of playing.
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Executor has a hotband across the top of the screen where you can keep
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the most frequently used files of each type. It's controlled by the
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set of small boxes on the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. The
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sideways oval will show you your directory structure from the top,
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including not only your Mac volumes but your DOS drives and any
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floppies or CDs which may be loaded. The other boxes will bring
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different sets of things into the hotband -- you'll learn what the
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heiroglyphs in the boxes are supposed to represent as you experiment.
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After you've goofed around with the demos for a while, you'll probably
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want to install your own games and maybe even do something useful.
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Executor can run programs directly from high-density Mac floppies, but
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this is very slow. It's quicker to copy the programs to one of the
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simulated Mac volumes on your hard disk. To do this, put the
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high-density floppy in your drive and select "Check for floppies" from
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the pull-down menu under "File." Now select the overview of all
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volumes by clicking on the sideways oval as above -- the floppy you
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just inserted should be one of your choices. Double-click on the
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floppy icon to open it, open the volume you want to put it in, and
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drag the program icon from the floppy window to the window of the hard
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disk volume.
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Sooner or later you'll need to make a new Mac volume or two to contain
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your files. To do this, you need to use the makehfv.exe utility in
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DOS (or the makehfv utility under Linux). At your DOS (or shell)
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prompt, type something like this:
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makehfv newvol.hfv NewVolume 500k
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where newvol.hfv is the name of the DOS file, NewVolume is the name
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Executor will see, and 500k is the size of the volume. You can also
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specify MB rather than KB by using m instead of k.
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Lots of specific questions, such as how to use downloaded software,
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are answered in the FAQ found in your docs subdirectory. If you have
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any questions which aren't answered there, just write to
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questions@ardi.com or call ARDI at +1 505 766 9115.
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