Hello Jon,
Thank you for the information. I will certainly try it. I wonder if this will keep on being a solution in the future
now with W8, as M$ seems to be discontinuing W7.
Wally has not (unfortunately) contacted. I have my hopes up.
I we get some sort of breakthrough I will certainly let the list know.
I it so nice having contacted some fellow xywriters, I feel I have contacted the “underground resistance” ;-)
Thank you all
Joaquín
De: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx]
En nombre de Jon P
Enviado el: viernes, 26 de septiembre de 2014 6:46
Para: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Asunto: Keyboard problems w/spanish 3.54 trying to contac Wally Bass
Lo siento que no soy Wally Bass.
But if you have Win7/64 Pro, please try XP Mode, available free from M$.
Put XY on the desktop within XP mode. It works better than DosBox. Look up my posts on the list for more of the settings I used--which I have now forgotten, because it works
so easily.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joaqu=EDn_de_Prada?= mailto:joaquin@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Keyboard problems w/spanish 3.54 trying to contac Wally Bass (testing
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:48:47 +0000
Hi,
My name is Joaquín de Prada and I am a diehard xywriter running v.3.54E which is a spanish-localized version.
I apologize if this has already been discussed, I am not sure I have read all the posts. Alternatively there might be a 64bit fullscreen fix 3.xx that I have missed.
I have highly customized program that I try to run fullscreen.
As of lately I have been testing DOSbox and vDOS as a "solution" for W7/64bit.
DOSbox works sort of, you can print with MB6 (Megabuild 6) that is a special version or fork of the main project. Fullscreen is ok, and some keyboard stuff works, although slowly, but the problem is that it does not "see" files after the drive las been MOUNTed.
Looking for a "better" solution I found vDOShttp://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/, which is used quite happily by the WP community.http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/vdoswp.html
Having contacted through the discussionhttp://sourceforge.net/p/vdos/discussion/general/thread/2a6709bc/?limit%25&page=1#4c5dhttp://sourceforge.net/p/vdos/discussion/general/thread/2a6709bc/?limit%&page=1#4c5d the very friendly
Jos Schaars, developer of the software he has sent me a new "beta" version that runs XYWrite.
The main problem is (as always) the way XYWrite handles the keyboard. Looking for a fix I read about the amazing fix by Wally Basshttp://www.holmgren.org/xywrite/2008/msg00104.htm.
That is why I was hoping to be able to contact Wally and he might be kind enough to let me know
about his fix, so we can "patch" the spanish version to do something similar. We are not
shy to patch the executable since we have been forced in the past to do
it, but if a fellow xywriter has the solution he might kind enough to share it.
If someone else has an idea how to make this work I would also appreciate it.
We also plan to take a look at the open source vDOS software to see if something can be done to make it more XYWrite friendly. We will of course share that.
The good thing about vDOS is it "pseudo-fullscreen" that is very well behaved, and has underline and italics. Also you can choose any TTF font you wish. I find that the built in "CONSOLE" works pretty well.
Thank you all.
P.S. I think I sent it from the wrong email, I am sending again, I hope I don't double post.
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