Re: USB printing ??? & DOS2USB pgm

[Wolfgang Bechstein bechstein@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger  wrote:

> Yes, the full millions-of-color palette that regular Windows has.

Thanks for the info. I have now installed Tame version 5.1 pre7 (which
I'm told works best with Xy), and have verified that Tame indeed allows
quick and easy color changes as you say. So far, so good. Plus, the fact
that one can simply drag the frame to change the size of the DOS-Box
window and have the font size grow or shrink accordingly is also _very_
nice. But but but... the problem that I had on my first attempt is still
there, namely the fact that with Tame loaded the cursor movement speed
and the repeat rate of _all_ keys in Xy slows down to an absolutely
unusable, like totally molasses level:

l ------------ i ----------- k ----------- e ----------- s ----------- o

The Tame status line of the DOS-Box window sometimes says: "A QuickTick
condition is detected." I always knew that I had a quick tic, but I
can't find any info or even mention of this message in the "Technical
Reference" help file.

I must say that I find the instructions for changing Tame settings
somewhat confusing. I see a plethora of .tam files in various folders
under the main Tame folder, but the file "default.tam" that the doc says
to use for changing overall settings doesn't exist. (I double-checked.)
Tinkering with the settings of the PIF that I use to start Xy also
brought no improvement.

So the jury is still out, but if I can't fix the slowdown, Tame goes
back into the drawer. And me, I gotta get back to some real work for now...

Wolfgang Bechstein
bechstein@xxxxxxxx