Re: Apple II Oasis on Vista 32

[Tarkin <Tarkin000@gmail.com>]

On Apr 1, 8:53 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> When I run Apple II Oasis on my Vista 32 laptop, the window that opens
> is just a few percent too small, resulting in scroll bars and even more
> loss of screen area.
>
> Does anyone know a simple fix, or should I contact its creator?
>
> -michael
>
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>
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I think the problem(s) that Vista32 and XP users have
relate the useless fanciness that is tacked on to the UI.
The very first thing I did/do to my XP comps (and my
Vista laptop) was to disable this @#$@#$, so that it
resembles W95/98 - no frame decorations, no animations
on drag/resize, etc. My original motivation was to
reduce CPU & memory on my early XP machines, so that
a box would be usable w/ older machines & 128 or 256 megs.

I just fired up apl24win.exe on my Vista32 laptop, and nothing
like you described happened. I can only attribute this to my
disabling the 'advanced' UI features in Vista.

Anywho, here's how I trim the UI in Vista & XP:
right-click on Computer, select 'properties' (bottom of the popup
list)
On Vista, select "Advanced System Settings" (you will prompted by
UAC);
on XP, select the 'Advanced' tab
You're presented with three boxes - the top one labeled 'Performance'
is what we're after here.
There are some tabs;  they differ in Vista and XP, but the one I am
concerned with exists in both - 'Visual Effects'
I deselect ALL of them, with the exception of
"show preview filters in files and folder" on Vista".
Hit 'Apply'

Voila! You now have plain-jane 9x-style frames and little or no
decoration. I think this improves compatibility with a lot of older
programs, and programs written with a minimal/generic win32 interface
(i.e. a lot of F/OSS).

HTH and TTFN,
  Tarkin