GrandView (GV) on XP or Vista--how?

Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 07:29 PM

Cassius -

My pif settings are very much the same as yours, but a bit sloppier :-) - i.e. I haven’t got rid of all the settings I used when I ran it under WIN98. Here’s a brief rundown of where I differ from you:

cmd line: I don’t use /L/T/W - but probably should
memory: uses HMA - checked (don’t think it helps)
misc: Background - “always suspend” is checked
font: 9x15: “both” is checked. (probably because I am using special fonts - see below)

On fonts: I am using (I think they are still working) Uwe Sieber’s modified DOS fonts. I have his NewDOS Fullscreen (Licence version) installed. They can be found at http://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html

I recall having to do some experimenting to find the best match to my laptop. And I think that further fiddling about with Tame may have wrecked my original settings. That said, I have GV running in a DOS window on XP that nearly fills my Thinkpad A31 screen.

On Tame - great idea with lots of settings for DOS windows under XP - including much better copy/paste routines and so on - but I could never get GV to scroll smoothly or quickly enough when using it. Tame is a complicated program and really needs a user forum plus an attempt by the developer to provide some guidance about settings for important DOS programs. The other problem was that getting the settings right for one program tended to screw up all my other ones. Again, I think I could have made program-specific settings but just could not work out how - in 10 seconds, that is! - to do so. So blame my lack of patience rather than Tame, I think.

>In case you didn’t know: Alt-Spacebar, E,P does the pasting from windows programs to GV (or another dos box file), and >is much quicker than right-clicking on the title bar and using the context menu.

Yes, I did, but only found out about a couple of years ago. It’s very useful and others will be helped a lot to know this. It’s the small but irksome problems like pasting that put people off continuing to run DOS programs under XP.

Derek