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Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On 7/5/2017 10:04 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>> Mike S.  <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> And as for graphics, are you sure it looks better on the C-128 even
>>> after a graphical scaler like hq3x is applied in Dosbox?
>> 
>> I'm sure you can use the same scalers under a Commodore 128 emulator, but
>> I've never really liked them personally myself.  The slightly improved
>> graphics I'm talking about a result of the PC and C64/C128 ports being
>> done by different people from the same base Apple II game.  Both games
>> greatly improved on the Apple II graphics, both use a resolution of
>> 320x200, but the Commodore port is supposed to be slightly better done.
>> At least as far as the tile sets go.  Looking at dungeon screenshots the
>> PC version looks noticeably better, the C64/C128 dungeons appear to be
>> using 160x200 graphics, so maybe I'm wrong here.
>> 
>>>> The Bard's Tale games and Dragon Age probably play
>>>> better on the Amiga for similar reasons.
>>>
>>> The Bard's Tale looks and sounds better on the Amiga winUAE emulator
>>> but the DOS version plays better in DosBox. At least that was my
>>> experience when I played through the Bard's Tale a few years ago.
>> 
>> Yah, when I tried running the C64, Amiga and IBM PC versions of Pool
>> of Radiance to see what version was better, I found using WinUAE to be
>> a pain.  That was something like 15 years ago though.  I was kind hoping
>> that the state of Amiga emulation had improved by now.
>> 
>> The great thing about DOSBox is that it's designed to play games first
>> and foremost.  (It's actually kind of a crappy emulator for things
>> aren't games.)  I remember reading a post by the person behind UAE or
>> WinUAE about how upset they were that all people wanted to do with it
>> was play games.
>> 
>They expected people to run WordStar and Lotus spreadsheets?

You never know.

When Corel took over Word Perfect they got rid of functions that "only a
minority of our customers use." 

Some sort of advanced sorting/collating/list generation he used to
generate potential musician lists for upcoming functions for the local
musicians union.   (People who play that genre of music, are paid up
members, etc.)

Word Perfect came with it and once set up it was very useful/powerful,
then Corel took over WP and axed it.  Word never had it.

As a result, my Father, who used one of those functions, never bought
another version and continued using that older Dos based one for several
more years, since it was quite literally the only one that did that.

Never think that newer automatically equals better, sometimes it's the
early versions that had all the features.

Xocyll
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