On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 3:32 PM, <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote: > > I tried to find ZANSI.SYS but found that it is nowerdays really hard to > get... Finally I found it there: > https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/user/tytso/msdos/screen/
Another source is here: https://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/ZANSI12.ZIP/INFO/ (I don't currently have a program installed that can unpack the ARC files provided by your source.) > So, ZANSI Version 1.2 is from Thomas Hanlin III, who used NANSI 2.2 from > Daniel Kegel as a basis. The source code is included. It is from 1987. The other common ANSI.SYS replacement was NNANSI.SYS, from Tom Almy, available from http://almy.us/dospage.html NNANSI was implemented as a TSR COM file instead of being a driver. This is useful if you use things like DOSbox, which doesn't support drivers loaded from CONFIG.SYS. (I use DOSbox to run some old DOS apps on an Android tablet, with NNANSI loaded as a TSR.) > I remember that I preferred ZANSI.SYS over NANSI.SYS and all other ANSI > drivers, because ZANSI was more light-weight i.e. it used as little RAM as > possible while at the same time being the fastest ANSI driver out there (at > that time). Sure, not all functions from NANSI are included, but what I was > after was the accellerated text output only. I load NNANSI as a TSR high here, so the difference in size isn't a big factor. Another plus for NNANSI is support for the VT-100 Add Line and Delete Line sequences that are missing in ANSI and NANSI. > So IF FreeDOS was ment not only for modern systems but also for real retro > hardware, I think it may be of interest to also include the option to choose > ZANSI over NANSI. FreeDOS was intended to be DOS compatible and used in place of MSDOS, so it can run on retro hardware. > Just my 2ยข. > > Cheers, > A. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
