VDE - Video Display Editor

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

• VDE.ICN → A:\SOFT icono, junto a su aplicación 200 B
• VDE.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 89.8 KB
• VINST.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 16.5 KB

No need to put VDE194.NEW, EXAMPLES.VDF, FILE_ID.DIZ, VDE.DOC, VINST.DOC, WP.VDF, WS4.VDF: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 251.7 KB on a 1 MB disk.

1. Copy VDE.EXE, VINST.COM to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
2. The .ICN files are icons: they go in the same folder as their application.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

edit your installation.


 Screen colors - You can select different colors for: normal text; block text;
    markers and printer codes; soft CRs/hyphens, tabs, and EOF; header; menus
    and prompts; header/menu highlights; and error messages.  Each is
    specified by an "attribute byte" consisting of two hex digits, for a
    background and foreground color.  ("17" = "1", blue background, & "7",
    white text.)  A color palette displays on screen.
        *0 = BLACK   4 = red      *8 = GREY           C = bright red
         1 = blue    5 = magenta   9 = bright blue    D = bright magenta
         2 = green   6 = brown     A = bright green   E = yellow
         3 = cyan   *7 = WHITE     B = bright cyan   *F = BRIGHT WHITE
    (* - All MDA screens can display black, white, and bright white; in some
    cases, grey may also be visible.)
        If you have an EGA/VGA display, the palette will include all 256
    colors (00-FF).  Otherwise, you will see only 128 (00-7F); on MDA/CGA
    systems, the background attributes 8-F produce blinking video.  Some video
    systems produce underlining, inverse, or grey shades instead of colors.
        (Note: if your soft CR color has the same background as normal text,
    VDE will adjust its background to match block text as well.)
 Border colors - The first digit here is the border (overscan) color to frame
    the screen within VDE; the second, the color to restore on exit to DOS.
    ("70" = white border, restored to black).  On some systems, or under
    DESQview or UltraVision, a border isn't visible at all.

 Cursor type (D/B/U) - Choose a full "B"lock cursor, or "U"nderline, or
    "D"efault for whatever the cursor shape already was.  (In 40+ line mode,
    it's always a block, for better visibility.)
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Literal excerpt from VINST.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.