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Re: vDosMac app?



Hi Lisa . . . I've gotten vDosMac.app to work very well, following E. Mendelson's instructions, quoted by Kari here, and then tweaking/learning from there. Took me a week. Much sharper/faster than the DosBOX iteration.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Lisa,

Actually, there is not such a thing but a DIY project which is a derivative of Edward Mendelson's work for running WP. This is how he described it to the list:

[quote]
vDos and vDosPlus will never be ported to the Mac (they rely too much on Windows), but you can run them on the Mac by downloading this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/vDosMac.zip;https://dl.dropboxusercontent [ http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/vDosMac.zip ]

If you want to run vDosPlus instead of vDos, you’ll need to find the copy of vDos.exe deep inside the vDosMac application and replace it with a copy of vDosPlus (but you will need to change the name from vDosPlus.exe to vDos.exe). If you don’t know how to locate a file inside a Mac application, search the web for “Show Package Contents."

This is an experimental project that comes with absolutely no support. I don’t know if it will work with XyWrite, but it can’t hurt to try. It’s a reduced version of my vDosWP for the Mac project: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/vdoswpmac.html;http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/

If it doesn’t work the way you want it to, just delete the vDosMac application and the vDosDisk folder that it creates inside your user folder
[unquote]

As there has been successful experiments with this thing, someone familiar with Macs should make a ready-to-use vDosPlus version for downloading.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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