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      is there?

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      Originally posted by looser:
      **is there?
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      The answer to that is no. But that's probably not what you're trying to ask. You are probably trying to ask:

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      Is there a program that will let me play EV on a PC running Windows?

      The answer to that is yes. The program is a Mac emulator called Executor. The instructions that follow were originally posted by AJ@work (in answer to a similar question):

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      Download and install Executor from www.ardi.com. It's a demo, I believe, and costs a rather hefty sum to purchase the full version. I didn't use it long enough to discover any time limits but I can say that it appeared rather buggy.

      Next, Download the Escape Velocity .Bin file. DO NOT try to open it in executor. We'll leave that to windows.

      Go to www.aladdinsys.com and download their freeware Aladdin Expander. It can handle just about any compression format on the face of the planet. Once you have that installed, locate the "Apps" directory in the Executor folder and once inside there, find the "Shareware" directory. Decompress the .bin file into that directory and then fire up Executor.

      (Alternate Method Of The Previous Step) You can also use the copy of "Stuffit Expander" that comes with executor. Place the .bin file in the /Apps/Shareware/ directory in the executor directory and then fire up the program. Open Stuffit Expander and use the File menu to select the Expand option. Locate the .bin file and you can decode the installer.

      The installer should then be in the "Shareware" directory and you'll be able to launch that inside the emulator. Wait for the install procedure to finish and then locate the game. It should work even if it's rather laggy.

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      (url="http://"http://www.emulators.net/")http://www.emulators.net/(/url) has a Mac emulator also.

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      Brian Schack
      "DOS Computers, manufactured by millions of companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
      --The New York Times, November 26, 1991 (also quoted in MacAddict 4)

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      EVN will run in a window and full screen. However EV won't.

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      Brian Schack
      "DOS Computers, manufactured by millions of companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
      --The New York Times, November 26, 1991 (also quoted in MacAddict 4)

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      Hi... I come to beg a bit of help. Let me go ahead and concede the inherit godliness of apple systems over PC's and try to duck the platform bashers out there.

      I played ambrosia titles back in school, where we had Macs available, but only have access to PC's at this time. I want badly to play EV on my PC (I hear EVN doesn't work on emulators yet (or at least not without B2 and a ROM I don't have), and the original EV is better than EVO), and have gotten it to run fine with Executor on my PC, with one problem. There is no sound. I tried enabling it with alt-shift-5, and in the preferences menu of EV, no luck. Any suggestions? I have a 1Ghz AMD machine with 512MB of RAM and have done the "executor -applshare 32m" procedure in DOS. Any help would be much appreciated.

      Mike/Adso

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      There've been numerous posts on this topic already; you should go and use the search feature to find your answer before you add to the number of posts about this.

      I'll just give a brief summary and let you guys look for the specifics yourself. Executor does a terrible job of emulating EV; I've tried the demo and it crawls on my 800 MHz. Go and look for Basilisk II (which has been ported to Linux, Windows, and BeOS), a far superior emulator which only runs 68k programs. As long as you have a decent computer, Basilisk II, and a ROM from a Mac computer (which is illegal if you don't own the computer that it's from), it's more than enough to run EV and EVO, and it'll run EVN with a bit of difficulty.

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      Originally posted by PlanetPhil:
      The answer to that is yes. The program is a Mac emulator called Executor. The instructions that follow were originally posted by AJ@work (in answer to a similar question):

      Holy crap. Somebody actually paid attention when I did all that research. I'm so glad it didn't go all to waste.

      By the way... How long ago was that?

      -AJ

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      Did you check you had the sound plugin or file in the folder?

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