Re: vDos and microlytics speller

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Carl and Joaquín
There is mention on the vDos site of a memory manager called EMSMAGIC
which was a potential way to provide EMS before the facility was
incorporated into vDos. I have tried to get it to work in vDOSXY with
EMS not enabled but without success. However I wonder if, for somebody
more skilled, this might provide a means of supplying the EMS that XY4
needs. Otherwise what about an old fashioned memory manager like QEMM.
 Again I could not get it to work but perhaps it is feasible.


Best wishes

Paul

On 12/12/2014 09:44, Joaquín de Prada wrote:

Carl,

He's very busy but I can try.

I am going to need an explanation of exactly what happens, and all
you know about it and the corresponding files.

Remember that (unfortunately) I don't have XY4 or any other files...
So make it for "dummies" so to speak... As you know XY3 does not make
use (sadly) of that kind of memory.

As for the other matter I think it is a great idea to include yours
and Kari's files. I will tell Catastrophic how can that be
acomplished.

I would like vDOSxy to be the gold standard for environment for DOS
word processors. But of course I depend on him.

This was a small project to make XYWrite III+ run in a friend's
office. This has been accomplished almost perfectly as it is now, so
much so that the program runs now way better in vDOSxy that it ever
did in XP (more memory, more lines, much clearer screen, underscore,
italics...). The only "feature" I am trying to get out of Peter
myself is a blinking cursor, since sometimes it is hard to "find" the
cursor on a screen.

Joaquín

-----Mensaje original----- De: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] En nombre de Carl Distefano
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xywrite@xxxxxxxx Asunto: RE: vDos and microlytics speller

Reply to note from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joaqu=EDn_de_Prada?=
 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:40:52 +0000

Joaquín,

This is something "bigger" than Peter, it is in the "core" of the
original vDOS.

I would test with the original "plain vanilla" vDOS to see what
happens. It might be that Peter broke it, but I very much doubt
it.


You're right, and I confirmed by testing today that the Microlytics
UK spelling dictionary does not work under the original vDos. My
thought was that since Peter was willing and able to fix the original
vDos's incompatibility with XyWrite's keyboard handling, he might
also be willing to tackle this. My impression -- which may be wrong
-- is that Jos himself is not much interested in making bespoke
alterations to vDos that may be required to run a particular program
such as XyWrite. That's why I thought of asking Peter if he could
work his magic once more.

On a different matter I am trying to have Peter include the latest
vDOS mods into the main vDOSxy repository in Github, so future
enhancements done by CatastrophicAnomaly or Jos or anyone else
include that. That is the beauty of open source!


I agree that github should continue to be the central repository for
vDosXy. My intention at XyWWWeb is to mirror the latest version of
vDosXy that has been confirmed to work with Xy3 and Xy4, along with
additional amenities -- such as model AUTOEXEC.TXT and CONFIG.TXT
files that I've developed with guidance from Kari (but not yet
published) -- that might be of particular interest to XyWriters.

-- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx