If this were my project, I would read the VT100 manual and design and
implement a serial driver and basic text window library from scratch
running on the bare hardware. It wouldn't be more than 1000 lines of C,
more likely something like 500 lines. I am a retired embedded
software engineer and did
If this were my project, I would start by getting newlib going and then
seeing if I could use that to run an older (presumably more simple, with
fewer requirements) version of screen.
-Henry
On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 22:04 Mike Katz wrote:
> Overlapping would be amazing, different screen quadrants a
On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 7:52 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity I downloaded the P2000C system disk images from Dave
> Dunfield's archive and looked through them in Linux using the strings
> command.
> Turns out, in the 4th disk image (P2000_4.IMD) there appears to be the
> ass
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 20:26, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Screen is a linux utility. I am writing this on a bare metal (no
> operating system) ESP32 dev board.
>
> Right now the program is text menu driven. I would like to enhance it
> with textual windows.
>
> The Txwindows pac
Mike, is the system really without an operating system?
So no cursor control at all?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 9, 2024, at 18:03, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> What about porting the old share-ware window libraries for dos?
>
>
What about porting the old share-ware window libraries for dos?
On 12/5/2024 6:32 PM, David Barto via cctalk wrote:
I think the operative sentence in the original request is:
I will be running this on bare metal (no operating system). Preferably the
package would use the regional scrolling capabilities of the VT-100 for faster
screen updates.
screen and
> On Dec 5, 2024, at 2:43 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I am looking for a C library that implements a crude windowing system on a
> VT-100 or compatible terminal via the serial port. I've seen such things
> before but not recently.
>
> I will be running this on bare metal (no oper
Hello Mike
Isn't ncurses doing what you look for?
Cheers
Gianluca
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 23:01, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
> I am looking for a C library that implements a crude windowing system on
> a VT-100 or compatible terminal via the serial port. I've seen such
> things before but not r
Teaching granny to suck eggs:
STAT DSK: on a running CP/M machine gives some information, including the
number of reserve tracks, and the records per block, which is useful when
parsing the DIRectory entries. The "sectors per track" is actually 128
byte records, not the physical sectors. Alth
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 11:58 PM Rob Jarratt
wrote:
> Hello Warner,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your detailed reply.
>
>
>
> I forgot to mention that I do get a display of sorts, it looks like this:
> https://robs-old-computers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/img_20241127_222706.jpg
>
>
>
> I had assumed th
Out of curiosity I downloaded the P2000C system disk images from Dave
Dunfield's archive and looked through them in Linux using the strings
command.
Turns out, in the 4th disk image (P2000_4.IMD) there appears to be the
assembler source for a format command that can handle multiple diskette
formats
On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk
wrote:
>
> This one seems to have information on the diskette layout starting on page
> 230:
>
> https://electrickery.nl/comp/p2000c/doc/P2000C-SystemRefServiceManual.pdf
Unofortunately that doesn't go far enough. It doesn't give the number
This one seems to have information on the diskette layout starting on page
230:
https://electrickery.nl/comp/p2000c/doc/P2000C-SystemRefServiceManual.pdf
-Peter
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 4:52 PM Rik Bos via cctalk
wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Maybe this software catalogue will help you:
> https://electrick
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