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I made my own DOS implementation (Announce)

posted by samwdpckr, 18.03.2024, 22:22

Thank you for your efforts in documenting the problems so thoroughly.

The installer of the graphical user interface cannot find the files, because you ran it from the root directory. That's why the "Getting started" instructions also say to run it from the LEETOS\ directory.

The TEXTEDIT program may be hard to use. I recommend using the NOTEPAD application in the graphical user interface.

On the last two pictures the operating system did not think that it was booted from a diskette. As I wrote earlier, it always starts counting drive letters from A:, so if you remove all diskette drives, the first hard drive becomes the A: drive. It works just as intended.

The colors of the graphical system can be changed by running the CONFIG.COM program from the LEETOS\ directory. You can also rename the SETUP.INI file so that it does not find it, which causes it to use CGA high-res display mode with only black-and-white colors. I understand that most modern LCD displays have terrible contrast ratios. On my display your screenshots look just fine.

You can get the mouse working by installing a mouse driver. Cutemouse works. Also you can try the KEYMOUSE.COM keyboard mouse emulator.

You don't have to press ALT when using the shortcut keys. Just press the underlined letter key.

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