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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:33:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmJxGdS7Y2F8r3w9g6OHT-ic_RPu5j0_xohOqMkCMwuY_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <807c3d21-2cf5-473e-859c-728ac83d3d30@www.fastmail.com>

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 6:50 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> > Going by memory, assuming aux/vga ran, you should be able to type
> 8-Alt-1-2 to type 8½
> > You should also be able to start acme or sam instead of 8½.
>
> These will probably work, except acme hadn't been invented yet and sam may
> or may not give an error the first time. (Checked with another demo disk.)
> You probably do want to start the window system, there is no way to kill
> the foreground process without it.
>

Acme (Alef version) is in 2ed; the single-floppy version doesn't seem to
have the binary. Looking at the screenshot that Will sent me directly, the
dates on the binaries match up to 2ed release.

I'm pretty sure the four-floppy set that came with the CDROM has the acme
binary. I don't have any floppy drives that I trust to look at my copy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23 16:57 will.senn
2020-07-23 17:50 ` [9fans] " Skip Tavakkolian
2020-07-23 19:52   ` will.senn
2020-07-23 20:29   ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-23 21:33     ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2020-07-23 21:59       ` Will Senn
2020-07-23 22:07         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-23 22:01       ` Ethan Gardener

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