Re: Dos Box creepers and more

[michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

Jordon writes:
> I never got much value out of trying to put program PATH type stuff into
> AUTOEXEC.NT, even for DOS programs. Quite often, you need to modify the
> System Environment variable, which was buried in a fairly obscure location in
> NT or W2K. I couldn't give you directions to it from memory, though I think
> Robert mentioned it recently, nor can I extrapolate to XP, which I don't and
> won't use. Ditto for the memory settings. If the XP'ers are lucky, it still
> involves settings at the program object (desktop shortcut, in Win -- though
> bear in mind that there have been a couple varieties of these, which expose
> different settings options), not too disimilar from the memory settings
> entered for the one in W98.
I'll try that, Jordon. Once we get XyDos running in an XP DosBox, I plan to
stick with that configuration, which, with Uwe Siebert's DOS fonts, gives a
good screen and great text at many different resolutions on different
screens, perhaps even on flat panels (currently I'm using the Sony
Multiscan G220). But...I'm also, as a backup and an alternative, trying to
get Ultravision to work on XP. It freezes in both the box and full screen,
as if it can not recognize keyboard commands. So I was wondering about
running DOS programs in general in XP. There's little *help* in XP's help
files and fiddling with all the settings in the pif (properties tab)
shortcut seems to make little difference.

Michael Norman