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From: Nik H. <nik...@ta...> - 2020-04-02 21:24:10
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Please forgive my amateurish intrusion into your no-doubt august group. At 85, I am many years adrift from modern computing. In my hay day, circa 1977, I wrote a realtime operating system for a PDP-11, using DEC's assembler code and, mainly a UK-based language called CORAL 66 - very easy to learn, efficient and flexible it was based upon Algol and comparable to Pascal. I eventually retired from the British arm of EDS in 1999 and since then, as a hobby, have written a few programs for an IBM PC using Turbo Pascal. For a longish time I as able to run the programs on Windows machines but in recent years, especially with Windows 7, 8 & 10, running the programs has become almost impossible. The main reason is that the majority of my programs use a mouse and MS DOS graphics. Recently, I've tried again (largely because we are locked down under this wretched coronavirus) with vdos and vdos-plus. Lots of useful text but no where can I find anything which says that vdos actually supports either the ms dos mouse or graphics; and I do not really understand what is written about config.txt or autoexec.txt. Frankly I have not as yet experimented with either of these files. My main question is this : can either vdos or vdosplus emulate the ms dos Mouse or the ms dos graphics. It might be helpful if I forwarded the text of the config.sys and autoexec.bat files that I have used successfully in the past. Regards Nik Halliday |
