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From: Alvah W. <awh...@gm...> - 2020-04-02 22:18:54
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Nik, I cannot give a definitive answer, but I have found vdosplus to be remarkably compatible with all the MS DOS software I have tried. And the text graphics are quite lovely. I have not had to tinker with the config file to achieve it. This is on a Windows machine. I have even had some success running MS DOS programs under vdosplus while running vdosplus under WINE on a Linux machine, though it's certainly not as smooth as on the Windows machine. Best wishes, and best of luck from another old timer, Al Whealton Somewhere in North Carolina On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:24 PM Nik Halliday via Vdosplus-discuss < vdo...@li...> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Vdosplus-discuss mailing list > Vdo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vdosplus-discuss > |
