Re: Fwd: XyDOS on large screens

[Alan Heubert aheubert@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Jordan,



Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I think we may be talking about the
same program. At least, the one I mentioned also came from Personics. I
hunted around on the net without success (I found one line, to a site in
Russia that just wouldn't load), but of course I may just not have found
the right site. So if you do ever have a chance to check it out on
Compuserve (to which I don't belong), I'd be very grateful to hear what
you find. No rush.



Alan



At 06:12 PM 8/7/00 Monday, you wrote:

Carl Distefano wrote:



> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:55:53 +0200

> From: Alan Heubert 

>

> Can anyon esuggest to me which  of the following solutions
might work, or

> suggest

> another?



>b) Are there any programs out there that will make DOS programs
look

>good  in full-screen mode on a larger monitor? A number of years
ago

>there used  to be a "screen enhancer" called
Ultrafont, that came

>installed on Toshiba  portables, and which did something
similar. But

>that program doesn't help  here, and the company that made it
doesn't

>seem to be around anymore.



There used to be a versatille DOS-based display utility, originally

developed for laptops (I think) called ULTRAVISION.  The original
developer

was Personics, but I think it later went to a small, shareware
outfit.  As

recently as 2 years ago, they still had a nominal presence on
Compuserve,

where I had an exchange of email with them.  I've been curious as to
whether

this product is still around, and whether it still has any real
uses.  This

might be a good time to do some digging.  CIS has been doing a lot
of forum

consolidation and reorgainization over the past year or so.  Even if
I could

i.d. the minor sub-section where they were last seen, that might not
be

enough.  I'll look around and let you know, but it will probably be
a while.



> c) Switch to XyWin, or to NotaBene.



No suggestion on the latter.  I have a license for XyWin, took a
relatively

brief test drive of it once, hated the changes they had made to
"Window-ize"

it, and have scarcely been back since.



Jordan Fox