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