Re: xy&dosbox

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

I can't recall how I split the screen before menus were available.  

If Ctrl-F10 is supposed to give you a vertical split, call up the Xy keyboard file

and look for F10 in the Crtl table.

For what it is worth, Ctrl-F10 does what it is supposed to do on my Mac with OSX

running Xy IV with Boxer.  

Boxer was/is a lot easier for me to understand and use.  Once you "install" Xy in or

with Boxer, what appears to be a Mac application called XY is created.  In fact it is a

"package" used by Boxer to run XY. You can "reveal" its contents to see the DOS config

file and the contents of what will appear as Drive C. 

Myron

On 2011-11-07, at 5:43 PM, Jeff Seager wrote:

The primary intent of DOSBox programmers was to provide an emulator for DOS-based games.
I found it rather quirky for XyWrite, but I think you may get what you want in the long run by
experimenting and searching the web for answers. DOSBox appropriates some of the function
keys we were conditioned to use in XyWrite, and those conflicts were a nuisance to me. I didn't
persevere long enough to sort that out.

Very important settings for DOSBox are contained in the file Dosbox.conf ... This resource
may help:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf

I still have a laptop running Windows 98SE. For as long as that holds up, it provides a pretty
satisfying Xy experience. I have a handful of such older computers lying around, still functional
 in the same sense that a hammer and nail are still functional in an age of nail guns, and a
copy of DOS 6.22. Eventually I may repurpose a little-used 6GB hard drive in one of those,
retrograding to a more perfect world for XyWrite. If I can play Leisure Suit Larry or some
other old game on the same machine, I guess that'll be a bonus.

Cheers,
Jeff Seager

-----Original Message-----
From: ralph j gray mailto:rgrayauto@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 3:39 pm
Subject: xy&dosbox

I've been overtaken by high tech and would appreciate any help. I'm trying to

run Xywrite III+ under win7 on desktop and vista on laptop. Dosbox gives me Xy

and full screen in both cases. What I can't get is the vertical split screen

that I use heavily. F10 and ctrl produces a mouse arrow. F9 and ctrl kills the

whole thing. Other Fs don't do anything. What commands need I make to get that

split screen? I write articles on one side from notes on the other. As I have

been doing since 1984 when I had a Xy 5 inch floppy and a file 5 inch floppy

in the two disk drives on my Kaypro. thanks, ralph

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