Re: A wild new idea for the future of XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Why would you want to use the Microsoft 'C-fonts' ? In the industry
they're widely acknowledged to be inferior. In any case, Consolas,
considered one of the best of a poor group, is a monospaced font,
that is the whole point of it and its name. The department which executed
this flawed project no longer exists. There are very few designers who
can conceive how to build a font suitable for use on hundreds of millions
of machines. I can't think of any, other than Matthew Carter, and I know
the field well.


Regarding the rest of it, I understand that vDos-lfn is the answer, not
the question.


At 15/07/2016 03:05, you wrote:

Carl,


Do you think vDOS-lfn would allow me to drop TameDOS? Does it allow full
use of bigger windows? I've now set Tame for 120 width and 43 line
length. And I use Lucida Console. Would love to be able to use Windows
fonts like Calibri, Cambria, and Consolas.





Reply to note from "Wengier
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sender "wengierwu" for DMARC) Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:10:13 +0000
(UTC)


Wengier wrote:


> With 64-bit Windows you can run DOS programs using platforms
like

> vDos-lfn just like when you run DOS programs using NTVDM under
32-

> bit Windows.


I would add that XyWrite running under a vDos-based platform like

vDos-lfn *looks* much better than it does under the Windows 7 NTVDM.

The latter doesn't support full-screen DOS, and its windowed DOS

doesn't support native DOS colors. With vDos-lfn, you can customize
the

screen font, screen colors, and default window size, etc. -- and you

can have true DOS color schemes in windowed mode. For me, the way

XyWrite looks, and the ability to change the way it looks depending
on

the ambient light, is very important. Not to mention the option to
make

it look like it did on the IBM PC back in the 1980s -- only
better.


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Carl Distefano

cld@xxxxxxxx