RE: vDos and microlytics speller

[Joaquín de Prada joaquin@xxxxxxxx]

Hi all,

There is a new version of vDOSxy3, with Edward's mods (icon title and euro) and also a new option:

blinkc = ON


To get a blicking cursor. Peter says it's a bit of a hack and might have some trouble, but, it works
for me.

https://github.com/catastrophicanomaly/vDosXY3

As for the memory I have inquired Jos, the original developer of vDOS to have an option that mimics
the QEMM VIDRAM command that let you have up to 704/734 MB of RAM. This would be great for Xy3+
users. He has said "I'll have a look at that" Fingers crossed!

http://sourceforge.net/p/vdos/discussion/general/thread/db692ce6/#5e1c/be92

Joaquín

-----Mensaje original-----
De: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] En nombre de Paul Breeze
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de diciembre de 2014 15:05
Para: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Asunto: Re: vDos and microlytics speller

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
> Enviado el: jueves, 11 de diciembre de 2014 23:28 Para:
> 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
>
>
>