vDosPlus XyWrite 3.12 available

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Hello all,

There is a new installer ready for download based on build 2017.08.18,
first vDosPlus build of vDos Summer '17 (2017.08.01):

http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/vDosPlus312_Setup.zip

Hopefully soon also mirrored.

As vDos Summer '17 is only compatible with Windows Vista or later, I
have added Wengier's 'vDosPlus for Windows 2000' executives (based on
earlier vDos) in the installer. Thus, this installer supports even
Windows 2000 and XP. Windows 2000 support is quite useful when using the
product in a virtual machine under other platforms, e.g. Linux.


Other important changes:
- Win+Ctrl+C now copies text to clipboard from cursor position to end of
line as long as the fore/background colors do not change.

- Generally more robust and comprehensive pasting of Windows Clipboard text.
- Instead of 4DOS you can use an internal command processor which
results in an 4KB increase of conventional memory if you put SHELL4DOS =
OFF in your CONFIG.TXT.

- The LOW directive has been removed.
- A FPU (Floating-point unit) is added to the emulated CPU.
- Protected mode support and bare extended memory (XMEM-EXT) usage has
been rewritten.
- More progressive idle detection (lowering the real CPU/core load) and
responsive DOS mouse handling.

- Added SEL = "" option to select the default Windows printer.
- COLS/LINS directive in config.txt accepts larger maximum values.

Please note that there is even a newer vDosPlus build (2017.08.19). It
adds BLINKR directive and restores LOW. (LOW is not needed for XyWrite).


Enjoy!

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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