Re: XY in DosBox (XP)

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Concerning XY4 and XP Pro on a desktop:

 I think that I can point out something that I find annoying, in fact,
 very annoying when running XY4 under XP Pro. I find that the screen
 font is terrible, and yet it would not be so bad were it not for the
 fact that there is not enough space between the lines. Maybe there
 is a way of correcting this, but I have not found it. If anyone can
 solve this problem, I'd like to hear from you. I'm with you Robert
 when you say that the jumpy cursor is not all that troublesome.

 I have to say that an ideal setup, for me, would be the one that existed
 under Win95, i.e., running XY4 in a Dosbox. But that is a thing of the
 past. So I've taken to running XY4 on my old Win95 machine, and I pray
 that I can keep this machine operating from some time into the future.

 Maybe just one point, some of my friends tell me that perhaps the best
 solution would be to use DOS 2000 on my new machine, and forget about
 Windows, since I rarely use Windows programmes anyway. To tell the
 truth, I hate them. I'm considering it.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Michael Norman  on Sat, 10 Apr
> 2004 11:42:06 -0400
>
> Michael:
>
> > Overall, I've been thinking...: no matter what we do --
> > ... XyDos in XP (or related platforms) is simply not going
> > to run right in a window (DosBox, virtual Dos, call it what you will.) By
> > *run right* I mean with the instant response we all prize and could count
> > on in earlier iterations of WIN or in running it full-screen/maximized in
> > any form of WIN.
>
> Hmmm. I've lost sight of the basic problem -- could you summarize it? I just
> used Xy4DOS under XP Pro on a notebook for two weeks, pounded out ten pages per
> day, and found it quite serviceable. Concerning speed, I think actual speed
> tests will show that, if anything, many operations are faster in a DOS box
> window (on the Desktop) than FullScreen, simply because Windows is optimized
> for windows (the difference isn't great, and isn't worth thinking about, IMO).
> The double cursor issue is very minor. The jumpy cursor isn't really all that
> jumpy or bothersome -- I honestly didn't notice it or think about it once.
> Notebooks are a different issue: the keyboards stink, and the LCDs don't
> display console fonts nicely in stretched FullScreen DOS (although IBM T-series
> is much better looking than most others I've seen).
>
> In short, Xy4DOS certainly works under XP, and to give the impression that one
> _must_ use 9x to get satisfactory results doesn't strike me as quite correct.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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