OpenEuphoria

1. Dosc Problem revisited

• Posted by dcole Sep 05, 2010
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When I open a dos program It opens in a small console window.

Holding down the [windows key] and hitting [Enter] should toggle the window from Console(small)

size to full screen.

It does this once. That is to say, it opens in small window.

Hit [Win][Enter] - goes to full screen.

Hit [Win][Enter] again - goes to small screen.

Hit [Win][Enter] again - goes to full screen.

Hit [Win][Enter] again - screen goes black no cursor.

[Ctl][Alt][Del] does nothing.

Pushing the power button on computer does nothing.

Hit [Win][Enter] again - back to the program in full screen.

When I close the program in full screen it goes to black screen no cursor.

The only way I can get out is unplug the computer.

When I restart it the data and time are wrong and I have to reset them.

This messes up other programs I have on my computer.

On second thought this may not be an Euphoria problem at all.

If I open the command prompt window in WindowsXP the same thing happens.

Big - small - big - crash.

Any ideas?

Don Cole

3. Re: Dosc Problem revisited

• Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Sep 05, 2010
• 1135 views

Hi

Instead of using the console supplied with winxp (and presumably vista and win 7), have you considered using dosbox for all your dos emulation needs?

Chris

5. Re: Dosc Problem revisited

• Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Sep 07, 2010
• 1204 views

Hi

That is strange, unless you are running on win 95/98

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBox_and_Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7

Sorry, I have no idea where to go from there as far as dosbox goes, but another solution, if you desparately want to run dos programs, would be to install virtualbox, and install a fresh dos install from there - if you were really desparate!

Chris