Re: XY4 in Win7-64

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Apologies for a very itchy Send button.
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If I can figure out the CLIP.EXE problem, DOSBox will do the job just fine. I now have a window size
I like.

Run Portable.PM and substitute its STARTUP.INT and SETTINGS.DFL for the ones in the XY you are
moving to the Thinkpad.

D-Box, a frontend for DOSBox, will basically make a batchfile to run XY when you click on it.

Alt-Enter gives you fullscreen but that freezes my Thinkpad 4291-2WU. In the DosBOX program folder
(in Program Files(x86) you can click on Dosbox-0.74 Options.bat and get the configuration file.

I changed it to windowresolution=800x600  (instead of original) for an XY window about 1/3 of
the screen. You can pick another standard ratio.  And for fullresolution, you could also pick a
larger ratio. To make those take effect, you also need to change output=overlay.

Now to figure out CLIP.EXE...

Jon Pareles


> I, too, have just acquired a new ThinkPad T420i burdened
> with Windows 7
> as its operating system.  If not in DosBox, Carl, then
> how would you
> recommend best running Xy4 and/or portable.PM on that
> machine?
>   - Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA
>