UltraVision

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

I corresponded a few months back with one of the creators of UltraVision and
there is some reason it will not work on newer screens--video card won't support,
something like that. No time to look it up now, but if someone wants to remind me
later, I will try.

Judith Davidsen

"Robert H. Kubie" wrote:

> I have a copy of UltraVision for Laptops on a 3.5" disk (took me a few days
> to find it.)
>
> I have not had occasion to use it for years and have not experimented with
> it, but I have no reason to think it would not work as well as it always did.
>
> If you will email me you mailing address, I will be happy to mail you a copy.
>
> --Bob Kubie
>
> At 12:48 AM 11/24/99 +0900, you wrote:
> >Robert Holmgren  wrote:
> >
> > > "Somewhat" coarser? UGH-ly! Ugh ugh ugh. Use UltraVision for
> > > Laptops. Fills up 3/4 of the screen with *very fine* resolution.
> >
> >This is straying quite far from Xy territory and any further exchange
> >should probably move to private mail, but here goes.
> >
> >I see what you mean, but there's an added twist to this story, at
> >least on my Compaq Armada. When I first switch to full-screen DOS (by
> >hitting Fn-T), the screen font indeed is extremely coarse and ugly.
> >But when I then just once call up my antediluvian DOS-based file
> >manager (called QDISK), the screen switches to a much sharper, nicer
> >looking, very usable font. QDISK is just a text mode program and
> >doesn't come with any screen fonts of its own, but that's what
> >happens, and the screen stays that way also when I exit QDOS and
> >start up XyWrite. Some other DOS programs (though not XyWrite on its
> >own) also have the same effect. The effect even remains active for
> >other DOS sessions as well (until I turn off the computer).
> >
> >As for UltraVision, I have the desktop version (it's one of my "can't
> >be without" programs), but when I started looking for the
> >full-fledged laptop version some years ago, the company (Personics)
> >had already gone out of business and I couldn't' locate a copy. I do
> >have a single-font "lite" version that comes with some Toshiba
> >laptops, but that isn't too great. If you can tell me where to lay my
> >hands on UltraVision for Laptops, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> >Unrelated aside: I think it would be helpful, Robert, if you could
> >set up your mail reader to attribute quotes by name rather than just
> >the date of the message, especially when replying to notes that
> >appeared some time back (after all, a few days is a looooong time in
> >cyberspace--now there's a word we don't hear too often any more, do
> >we?).
> >
> >Wolfgang Bechstein
> >wolfie@xxxxxxxx