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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 8/5/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> I have MGA/TTL and VGA on this computer (matrox VGA) and an 84-key 
> keyboard.
> 
> I have BL2 set up with Xvesa and an rxvt.  I ran xdosemu at 640 resolution 
> because it fills the screen better.  If I run it at 1024 and then maximize 
> the dosemu box, the text looks rather bad.  It might help to install the 
> proper dosemu vga fonts.  Dosemu won't work right with BL3, says David.

Try it yourself if you don't believe me. And let us know if it does work.

> WP51/DOS under plain dosemu on the VGA screen is a disaster.
> 
> It keeps leaving out letters at random.  I typed going three times:
> goig going oig
> 
> Maybe my dual-head system is confusing it?  Or this keyboard?

Looks like dosemu's fault.

> The quick brown fox turned into Thequick bro fox
> Hello there became  Helo ee
> 
> The Enter key at least works.  And F7.
> 
> My partner's text editor has no such problems - all the letters appear 
> immediately when typed.

WP probably has some loop which uses up CPU and dosemu doesn't
like.

> WP works under pure DOS on this dual-monitor system.
> 
> It has typing problems on the TTL monitor under dosemu too.
> 
> My partner is delighted to be able to use his text editor, which means he 
> does not have to learn to rewrite it to compile for linux.
> 
> So I installed WP42/DOS and this works very nicely under dosemu in VGA 
> mode.  I can't get it to load under xdosemu.  What am I doing wrong?

What is the error? Does it do nothing and just drop you back to a prompt?
Perhaps xdosemu imitates a graphics card which WP42 can't handle.

David