RE: New vDosxy and underlining

[Joaquín de Prada joaquin@xxxxxxxx]

I myself am quite happy with the new version of vDOSxy in "sync" with the original project. And underlining seems to work dandy for me. Before I go to catastrophicanomaly we should try out if this happens with the "plain vanilla" vDOS. It is my understanding that he modifies nothing of this part of the program, so probably Jos (the original author) is the only one that can fix it.

Joaquín

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De: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] En nombre de Carl Distefano
Enviado el: domingo, 26 de abril de 2015 22:13
Para: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Asunto: Re: New vDosxy and underlining

Reply to note from James Woolley  Sun, 26 Apr
2015 04:41:58 -0400

> That setting [WP = 6] crashes the new vDosXY, at least in my (NB3)
> experience. Any possibility of getting underlining back?

Are you running a desktop or a laptop? WP = 6 works fine on my two HP desktop machines. However, the
other day I installed for someone on two Dell laptops (running Win 8), and WP = 6 crashed vDosXy. I
think this is an issue for Peter a/k/a catastrophicanomaly.

> More generally, I'm curious about what problems the new version was
> meant to solve, or what new functionality it is supposed to offer.

As I understand it, three things. 1) More memory for Xy/NB (an additional 64 KB). 2) Less Windows
memory usage: the old version grabbed 64 MB of extended memory, the new one by default uses only
4 MB. (My old vDosXy-Xy4 setup consumed 70 MB of Windows memory per session; now I'm using only 3-5
MB per session.) 3) The ability to run other DOS programs that don't use Xy/NB's special keyboard
handling -- in other words (in theory), a complete substitute for the original vDos.

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Carl Distefano
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