Re: dosemu 1.1 some issues

Bart Oldeman
2003-07-19T12:11:52Z

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Vedran Rodic wrote:

> 1.
> I've noticed when using bitmap fonts, the font spacing is too large.
> Where can this be fixed?

it depends how you look at it. bitmap fonts use the VGA character size
of 9x16/14/8 where the 9th pixel is extended from the 8th.

This default X font vga.pcf uses 8x16 however.

Now the font spacing *looks* too large because of the aspect ratio.
Here we have a 720x400 window with an aspect ratio of 9:5 (1.8) instead of
the fullscreen 4:3 (1.33).

Too see what I mean, set
$_X_bilin_filt = (on)
(to filter out ugliness) and then press ctrl-alt-f.

I'm not sure what to do about this. Maybe DOSEMU should use 8x16 character
boxes even for bitmap fonts.

> 2.
> A free DOS program named Impulse Tracker has prolems with
> rendering it's text interface. It uses customized VGA font but it
> continually flashes between the full screen interface and some random
> garbage.

yes, I know about this. Haven't got around to test or try fixing this one
though.

> I have reports of other issuses, but tell me if you want me to continue sending
> that or should I rather spend my time trying fixing the actual code. It
> might take me a while to learn my way arroun though.

Trying to fix it yourself would be very good of course! These are all
non-trivial bugs too fix, for you as well as for me.

Bart