You can see this in action with WPDOS 5.1 by starting DOSBox-X in an 80x25 VGA screen, and pressing Shift-F1, Display, Colors/Fonts/Attributes, and choosing item 5 - 512 Characters, 8 Foreground Colors. This makes it possible to see accented characters, curly quotation marks, etc., on ordinary text screens, This feature works perfectly in DOSBox-X with bitmap fonts, because WP loads a set of bitmaps to display the second 256 characters. WordPerfect for DOS includes support for a 512-character screen font that uses the optional second font bank in VGA hardware. The corner of a reference book was resting on the Enter key "and had filled the document with hundreds of empty pages."ĭan suggested perhaps moving the book elsewhere and, after dispensing some encouragement around the use of the backspace key, listened as Ashley counted backwards from 155 as the extra pages were deleted.Ĭrisis averted and paper handed in on time.ĭo you remember those fun times talking users through problems while guessing what exactly was on the screen? Or hauling a family member out of a silly situation of their own making? Tell us about your moment on the telephone with an email to On Call.Now that Wengier has done heroic work in bringing TTF output to DOSBox-X, this additional TTF feature seems to be worth asking about. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? Detroit waits for my order, you'd better make amendsĭan thought quickly and, with enviable patience, asked if perhaps there was something resting on the keyboard?.Can't get that printer to work? It's not you.Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have.File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did."Yes! It says page 153"įollowing by an exasperated: "What's going on?" It always showed the document position and page number in the bottom right of the screen.Ĭarefully, he asked: "Are you sure there's nothing in the bottom right corner of the screen?" And then he remembered something about WordPerfect. Dan pondered his next move (one that did not involve a hurried exit from the office and an awkward conversation with the boss.
Perhaps a loose video cable?Īll was good to go. The screen was completely blank.Īshley confirmed the power lights were on.
He asked his partner what was on the screen.
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