Re: notebook LCD

[Wolfgang Bechstein wolfie@xxxxxxxx]

Michael Norman  wrote:

> Can you suggest some of these old utilities?

The one that does the trick for me is a file manager called QDISK. It
used to be shareware, but I have no idea whether it still is available
somewhere. You might try a search. The version I currently still use is
>from 1994, and this might have been the last version. It does not
have an explicit screen mode switching command, but simply running it
in a DOS session seems to change the (apparent?) resolution.

> Have you seen XyDos on a desktop LCD 15-inch display?

No, but I saw the plain DOS text mode characters on the Sony Vaio,
and assume that XyDos would look the same. As I said, the screen
looked quite passable. If I had one, I'd probably try to improve
appearances further using the above utility (which I use a lot anyway)
and give UV a whirl.

> Has anyone tried the old Ultravision on a desktop LCD?

Ah, another UV addict! No, I haven't. On my Compaq laptop with its
800 x 600 12-inch TFT, I tried both the regular Ultravision and the
(also pretty old) Toshiba version for laptops. They both work in a
full-screen DOS session, but only when the screen is *not* maxed out.
Since I get pretty good characters with the maxed out screen without
UV, I don't use it on the laptop. On my desktop with a Nanao FlexScan
52F (17 inch) and a fairly old Number Nine 9FX Motion 531 video card,
Ultravision works like a charm and is an integral part of every DOS
session (which means many hours of XyDos use per day).

Wolfgang Bechstein
wolfie@xxxxxxxx