RE: vDos and microlytics speller

[Joaquín de Prada joaquin@xxxxxxxx]

Carl,

He's very busy but I can try.

I am going to need an explanation of exactly what happens, and all you know about it and the
corresponding files.

Remember that (unfortunately) I don't have XY4 or any other files... So make it for
"dummies" so to speak... As you know XY3 does not make use (sadly) of that kind of memory.

As for the other matter I think it is a great idea to include yours and Kari's files. I will tell
Catastrophic how can that be acomplished.

I would like vDOSxy to be the gold standard for environment for DOS word processors. But of course I
depend on him.

This was a small project to make XYWrite III+ run in a friend's office. This has been accomplished
almost perfectly as it is now, so much so that the program runs now way better in vDOSxy that it
ever did in XP (more memory, more lines, much clearer screen, underscore, italics...). The only
"feature" I am trying to get out of Peter myself is a blinking cursor, since sometimes it
is hard to "find" the cursor on a screen.

Joaquín

-----Mensaje original-----
De: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] En nombre de Carl Distefano
Enviado el: jueves, 11 de diciembre de 2014 23:28
Para: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Asunto: RE: vDos and microlytics speller

Reply to note from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joaqu=EDn_de_Prada?=
 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:40:52 +0000

Joaquín,

> This is something "bigger" than Peter, it is in the "core" of the
> original vDOS.
>
> I would test with the original "plain vanilla" vDOS to see what
> happens. It might be that Peter broke it, but I very much doubt it.

You're right, and I confirmed by testing today that the Microlytics UK spelling dictionary does not
work under the original vDos. My thought was that since Peter was willing and able to fix the
original vDos's incompatibility with XyWrite's keyboard handling, he might also be willing to tackle
this. My impression -- which may be wrong -- is that Jos himself is not much interested in making
bespoke alterations to vDos that may be required to run a particular program such as XyWrite. That's
why I thought of asking Peter if he could work his magic once more.

> On a different matter I am trying to have Peter include the latest
> vDOS mods into the main vDOSxy repository in Github, so future
> enhancements done by CatastrophicAnomaly or Jos or anyone else include
> that. That is the beauty of open source!

I agree that github should continue to be the central repository for vDosXy. My intention at XyWWWeb
is to mirror the latest version of vDosXy that has been confirmed to work with Xy3 and Xy4, along
with additional amenities -- such as model AUTOEXEC.TXT and CONFIG.TXT files that I've developed
with guidance from Kari (but not yet
published) -- that might be of particular interest to XyWriters.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx