Re: Xywrite DOS (Display Issues)

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx

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