AW: Dos Box XP

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 25, 2003

Dear SW List Members and Stefan:
Ingvild and I have been trying the very same things, Stefan...So we 
will have much to tell you in the next day or two -

smile...

Val ;-)

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On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:30 AM, Stefan Woehrmann wrote:

> Hi Sergio, Jerry and Software - Experts,
>
> thanks to your advice I managed to run SW44 under Windows xp -
>
> Can you give your comment to the following problem please ?
>
> In general I feel not as secure running the programm under XP compared 
> to
> Win98 - I am busy to write a German installation - procedure ;-))
>
> Although my computer is pretty fast - the commands under XP get 
> fullfilled
> with some delay - especially moving symbols seems to be a difficult 
> task for
> the computer and holding the key for moving to the side - the symbol 
> would
> move after I had already lifted the key for several seconds.
>
> Two to three times this caused a breakdown - so my whole job on this 
> new
> file got lost  ;-(( .
>
> I cannot follow Jerrys instruction because there is no way ( at least 
> I know
> of)  to type this backslash within the dosbox-window - once the 
> program has
> started with Z:\>
>
> How about others ? My DOS - commands ar all English - so no German 
> version -
>
> I can switch to C:\ with the Editor - program within the DOSBox.conf  
> file
>
> We can change the memory - Is there any effect to change it from 4/8  
> to
> 12/24   or anything else ?? - my sw folder contains more than 700
> iles  -???
>
> [dos]
> # Setting a memory size to 0 will disable it.
> emssize=12
> xmssize=24
>
>
>
> [autoexec]
> # Add here the lines you want to execute on startup.
> mount c c:\SW
> C:
> cls
>
>
> My last question - is anybody fom the list in contact with the 
> specialists
> who created DOSBox ?
> Perhaps they could give some explanations why there is only one file 
> in the
> "file - window"
>
> or about some other problems like problems with screenshots ? I get 
> orange -
> black - or grey in black --??
>
>
> But that is not the biggest problem becaus we can open Windows 
> Explorer in
> the background to read the exact names of the 730 files that are stored
> there (71,2 MB)
>
> Thanks for your support
>
> Stefan ;-)
>
>
>
> -----Urspr ÿÿ gliche Nachricht-----
> Von: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]Im Auftrag von
> Sergio Ribeiro
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. September 2003 17:56
> An: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Betreff: Re: Dos Box XP
>
>
> Thank you Jerry and Valerie,
>
> Just a little bit information. When you install DosBox in your 
> computer he
> creates a new folder named DOSBOX. In this folder you can find a file 
> named
> DOSBOX.CONF you can open it using Windows NotePad or another similar 
> text
> editor program.
>
> Open it ! Find follow command:
>
> fullscreen=false
>
> If you change to True for DosBox program run with FULL SCREEN
>
> And after [autoexec] instruction in this file you can add commands 
> like:
>
> MOUNT C D:\SW
>
> For example.
>
> I hoppe be helpfull !
>
> Best Regards
>
> Sergio
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Em 23 Sep 2003,     SignWriting List escreveu:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> September 23, 2003
>>
>> Jerry Spillman in Utah wrote:
>>> I see my name a few times lately. Thank you, but please remember our
>>> good friend Sergio, without whom we would not have this wonderful new
>>> means to run SW DOS!!
>>
>> Hello Jerry and Everyone!
>> You are right, Jerry. We owe Sergio a BIG thanks!!! I know Sergio sent
>> us some instructions way back, but sadly those instructions did not
>> come into the Archives in a readable format, so your instructions have
>> been very helpful too, Jerry...Thanks to both of you, for your
>> teamwork...
>>
>> You can now download your instructions on how to use DOSBox on our web
>> site:
>>
>> SignWriting PDF Library
>> Document sw0116
>> http://www.SignWriting.org/library/pdf/pdf019.html
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> ----------
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