Subj : OpenXP ..an adventure
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Mar 31 2019 20:56:43

By Martin Foster : August Abolins on 3/31/2019 5:54 AM

>  AA> I am not too fond of the console look.
>
> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :-))

Yes..  absolutely.  But there is something about the console-look that just 
seems backward-looking.  My brain is saying "we ought to be able to do much 
better than that by now".  lol

I experimented with the program launching in 640x480 mode.  Yep.. it fills the 
entire screen, but that is too big. There doesn't seem to be an intermediary 
size option in the Properties from Windows.

I tried vDOS, but it just switches the screen to full mode just like I can do 
easily in WinXP.

I came across some DosBox video that showed window resizing and font resizing 
on the fly by just dragging the corners!  That's would be very good.  But 
OpenXP complains that it needs to be run in Win32 environment.  :(


>  AA> Plus, it only occupies one small quarter of my screen when I run
>  AA> it.
>
> That can be changed in the settings.

Do you mean in Config/Display/Lines?  THAT might be doable.  I'd like to have a 
wider and taller reading and writing area.  Trying 35x120 is a workable start. 
And I can drag that window around as desired.


>> AA> That little
>>  AA> package has a lot to boast about!
>
> Yes but it's a bit like Marmite, you either love it or you hate it.
> Most people hate it :-(

You do realize that you made me google that.  :(

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