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Re: Apple II Oasis on Vista 32
Tarkin wrote:
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
NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers!
Home page:http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."
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.
You are, no doubt, correct that changes in the GUI have created
this compatibility problem.
However, I have no desire to make my 2007 laptop look like
Win95. ;-) It is a fast dual-core system with 2GB of RAM,
so it is quite reasonable to expect some GUI enhancements,
and very snappy in providing them.
In the early 1990's, I worked for HP, and we had just introduced
a very fast workstation (for the time). It was so fast that it
was possible to drag windows *and their displayed contents* around
the screen without any lag at all, rather than just showing the
outline of the window until it stopped moving, as was usual then.
Everyone *immediately* turned on the option to drag the window
contents, just because it was so snappy to look at--and it didn't
require any more CPU when the dragging stopped, of course.
I regret the compatibility issue, but I certainly wouldn't turn
my world upside down to work around it.
I like simple command line interfaces and nice-looking GUIs. ;-)
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).
Teodor is looking at the problem, so I'm willing to wait.
An occasional update is the price of staying with current technology.
-michael
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