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Harry,
Starting with your last question
below: How does my basic C:prompt (MS-DOS) box look? It doesn't look like
Flash's screenshot, which is: "Xy3+" Properties, then across the top:
Option, Font, Layout, Color. Mine reads: "MS-Dos Editor," then: Program, Font,
Memory, Screen, Misc. No matter which way I enter Xy/DOS, the Properties
box looks the same. Likewise, I'm not able to find Lucinda Console anywhere or,
for that matter, Clear Type, which sounds terrific and something I'd to use
regardless of how this ends. (The closest that a search of the hard-drive
produced was ClearDot and Cool Type. If you know of another place to look,
please let me know.)
But after reading your comment below,
I'm convinced you're absolutely right: Since I can't get the
"native"1400 x 900 pixel resolution that Dell's CD instructions cited,
this monitor just isn't going to work for me, no matter how much I tinker w/
it.
So, given my system's apparent
limitations (no Lucinda, no Clear Type, etc.), and its specs (a Millennium
with Xywrite III Plus, Version 3.56), what should I look for in a new
monitor? I did try each of the resolutions and they were all worse than the
best one I can get: 1280x800. Should I look for a monitor that lists one of the
resolutions that I do have? (The full list in order: 640x480, 800x600,
1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x800, 1280x1024)
I would prefer an LCD (more desk
space and less radiation than a CRT--though maybe that's no longer true?)
If anyone can recommend a specific model to try, that'd be great.
Especially if you find it works on an ME.
If they no longer make monitors that
jibe with the ME's available resolutions, then will the graphic adaptor make
everything look normal? You said, Harry, "if I want to spring for it." How many
hundreds are we talking about?
Thank you all,
Leslie
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