Msg: Re: How many of us are there left? Xy under OSX

I haven't tried running in a virtual environment under Parallels, but I have used Dos Box.

I prefer Boxer, which is easier to set up to get to the c:\. And the window is stretchable to any size that's comfortable. Full screen works great on the 13" laptop, while a smaller window, running next to a PDF under Preview is best for the mac mini with a 26" screen.

The one thing I can't do is clip text from Xy and move it to another OSX program.

OS X lets you change the configuration of CTRL, CAPS, ALT, COMMAND keys, so it works with my old Avant Stellar keyboard with function keys on left, exactly as XY did on my old windows (and earlier DOS) computers. You do have to make some adjustments in systems preferences to free up the function keys from their default settings.

Lisa Kleinholz

From: flash
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: How many of us are there left? Xy under OSX

Carlo,

I too jumped from W2K to OSX about 10 years ago. I first tried
VirtualPC on a PowerBook G4 (pre-Intel). I am currently running SnoLep
on a Mac Book Pro (Intel).

There are a couple of solutions for getting Xy to run under OSX. Lisa
has got Xy up and running using Boxer. There is another solution
called DOS-Box. I am using CrossOver (which is a paid-for variant of
Wine). These latter three solutions allow one to run Xy alone without
the overhead of installing virtual-Windows (as in VirtualPC or
Parallels). The PowerBook G4 was under-RAMmed to make virtualPC
perform well, but with double the RAM in the Intel Mac and lo-overhead
of Boxer/DOS-Box/CrossOver, the performance matches what I once had
running Xy in W2K.

Send me private email if you want to proceed w/ Xy under OSX and need
help. The main issue is getting the Dos environment to 'see' the OSX
file system, as there is nothing in OSX which responds to C:\