Re: Xywrite DOS (Display Issues)

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Some time in 1999, I tracked down one of the developers of
UltraVision online to ask about problems I was having with
the program on a laptop. He wrote back: "With DOS being all
but dead for years, video board makers no longer cared about
supporting enhanced DOS video modes." So the reason you
can't get more than 720 horizontal pixels is because that's
all your system will support in DOS/text mode."

At that time the company was out of business.

Judith Davidsen

"J. R. Fox" wrote:
>
> Thomas J Hawley wrote:
>
> > Running a DOS application full screen in Windows 2000 does indeed produce
> > an ugly display, and I would agree that it is unacceptable. One solution
> > (which I use) is Ultravision, and it produces an excellent display. There
> > may be others. I must admit there are some things here which I still do
> > not understand, despite considerable reading and tinkering. Windows 2000
> > is not a DOS-friendly environment and information is not easy to come by,
> > but there are ways to make it work.
> >
> > I'm down to two DOS apps, Xywrite and R:Base. But I've got both working
> > under W2K, and with great Ultravision displays.
> >
> > Tom Hawley
> > tjh@xxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks for the info and lead re UltraVision. If they are still around
> somewhere, I'll try to find them. Hopefully this program has not also gone
> off the market. If it has, that may be a problem. Probably should have
> bought it years ago, when I had the chance.
>
> It is doubtful I will be running XyDOS under Win-2K _for myself_, though I may
> need to get it running for someone else. To summarize various threads here,
> there are some hardware issues (e.g., TFT displays on laptops), which may or
> may not be alterable in a h/w setting or in the BIOS; there is at least one
> setting in Xy that can be fiddled with; and there may be some system display
> settings one can make in various versions of WIN.
>
> Beyond that, I'd like to know if anyone reading this List has managed to
> achieve a reasonably good-looking, full-screen, normal page display of XyDOS
> on any of the newer flat-panel monitor-replacements for a desktop system ?
> (Bonus relevance points if you're _not_ running Windows.) The better ones of
> these are probably going to be TFT, or something similar. If you have done
> this, what steps did you need to take ?
>
> Assuming the prices keep on moderating, one of these may be the next monitor
> for many of us.
>
> Jordan