Does Buddy work on an “international” machine?
Yes, if your machine is an English version, or an international version that has English-language displays, then Buddy will be happy. But, Buddy only understands English, just like me. On machines with non-English displays, many Buddy features don’t work. I do not have a list of those features; you’ll have to try it yourself (there is no danger) or ask other people on a BBS. • Do you have plans to make a version for German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian(?), etc. No, it would be too much work. For starters, there are hundreds of places in the program where Buddy (1) makes decisions based on particular pixels, letters, or words that appear on the display and (2) outputs certain characters to the application. Sorry. • Why doesn’t MENU-dot work for me in DOS? This can happen if you have manually changed your APNAME.LST file. For example, if you changed it to assign a blue key to “acCIS.” To test this, rename your APNAME.LST file and then try MENU-dot in DOS. The proper
Yes, if your machine is an English version, or an international version that has English-language displays, then Buddy will be happy. But, Buddy only understands English, just like me. On machines with non-English displays, many Buddy features don’t work. I do not have a list of those features; you’ll have to try it yourself (there is no danger) or ask other people on a BBS. • Do you have plans to make a version for German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian(?), etc. No, it would be too much work. For starters, there are hundreds of places in the program where Buddy (1) makes decisions based on particular pixels, letters, or words that appear on the display and (2) outputs certain characters to the application. Sorry. • Why doesn’t MENU-dot work for me in DOS? This can happen if you have manually changed your APNAME.LST file. For example, if you changed it to assign a blue key to “acCIS.” To test this, rename your APNAME.LST file and then try MENU-dot in DOS. The proper
