Re: XY in DosBox (XP)

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 4/1/2004 10:19 AM -0500, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
> Hmm. I was having screen, keyboard, and cursor problems on a system (two
> in fact, and the Xy setup had been copied from one to the other). So I
> pulled up settings.dfl and ran compare against a known good version. It
> turned out that there were several places where there were blank lines in
> settings.dfl: no semicolons, no df xx=, just a CR/LF. That evidently eats
> up RAM to a fare-thee-well and causes all sorts of instabilities.
> Furthermore, because it causes keystrokes to be delayed, it's likely to
> cause more such lines to creep into the file if you try to edit it on
> that machine. Go through settings.dfl very carefully (SE for CR/LFCR/LF,
> and also for CR/LF CR/LF; the space at the beginning of the line is even
> worse) and clean any such lines out.
Well, this cleared up one of the five problems I was having: When I
alt/enter'ed to full-screen and back, the program would freeze. Now, it
does not. Progress. One down four to go. Thanks, Patricia. (Found half a
dozen CR's.)
Meanwhile, I misspoke in answer to Jim's question: XYDos FULLSCREEN works
just fine in XP Pro, no erratic cursor, though the font looks dreadful.
Somewhere I have an old copy of Ultravision for laptops, which might work.

Michael Norman