And the last time I have read this was with the release of the Core update 1.3. In the latest Versions wasn't such an ask.
This discussion came up just recently, but the general consensus by the end of it, was that Mark specifically asked not to distribute exes 'while it is still in beta' - the latest versions are still in beta.
it ran but is was very slow, and when I fired it dropped to about 5-8fps (guesstimate).
You probably already know, but just to be sure : most major slowdown probs in Max are caused by old gfx drivers (particularly on ATI cards).