Msg: Re: Two topics: Gift Horse and Font Quirks

Hi Jon P,

The splash screen with the build number and credits will show up only if you are connected to a network domain or a network drive is addressed. Jos Schaars, the author of vDos has decided to make the registration of vDos optional. I cannot disable this directly in the source code, but you will never see that splash screen if your PC is not connected to a network domain or drive. More information can be found at:

https://www.vdos.info/register.html

As for alternative fonts, please note that like original vDos, only monospaced fonts are accepted by vDos-lfn. For example, if you want to use the DejavuSans font then you need to use DejaVuSansMono.ttf instead of DejavuSans.ttf. I have tested it myself and it surely works. Hope this helps.

P.S. The latest build of vDos-lfn is build 2016.08.24.

Wengier

On Thursday, August 25, 2016 1:14 PM, Jon P wrote:

Like the rest of us I'm very grateful for VDos and VDos-LFN.

But...after some recent update the first keystroke, after XY4 is loaded, opens a splash screen with the build number and credits. Incidentally, it's 2015.11.01 (build 2016.06.11)

It sits there for a little while before either disappearing or getting removed by typing.

Is there a splash screen off option? I don't see anything obvious in CONFIG.txt or AUTOEXEC.txt.

Also, in toying with fonts, two oddities when I have tried some alternate fonts in Config.txt.

The Cousine family, when I click on the VDos-lfn/Xywrite4 shortcut, just blinks a window for an instant and does not open XY4.

DejavuSans (and others) pop up a VDos-lfn Exception: Cannot accommodate a 25x80 Window, and XY4 doesn't open.

Any thoughts? Or maybe it can be solved with something as simple as updating to a newer VDos-lfn build?

Jon Pareles