Wayne
On Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:36:20 PM UTC-7, James Moxham (Dr_Acula) wrote:
Sorry about the delay - I knew I had see this but had to search for the
right terms
This discussion thread
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?138654-FYI-VGA-100xH-P-dual-cog-per-cell-colour-(full-indexed)
Cheers, James
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:23:01 +0930, Wayne Warthen <wwa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Total of 6 are normally in use:
>
> 1 for Main
> 1 for Keyboard
> 2 for VGA
> 1 for Serial Port
> 1 for SD Card
>
> -Wayne
>
> On Sunday, September 9, 2012 6:51:53 PM UTC-7, J. Alexander Jacocks
> wrote:
>>
>> How many cogs are in use, with the current ParPortProp firmware?
>>
>> - Alex
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Wayne Warthen
>> <wwa...@gmail.com<_javascript_:>>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah, that is all I found as well. There is a tile driver that should
>> be
>> > able to do it, but requires 4 cogs and a 1280x1024 screen
>> resolution. I
>> was
>> > reluctant to go down that path.
>> >
>> > James, if you know of a driver that is appropriate, I would definitely
>> be
>> > interested.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:53:27 AM UTC-7, yoda wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi James
>> >>
>> >> I don't recall seeing anything that will drive 80x30+ characters with
>> >> single character color attributes - I think there are some with lower
>> >> character displays but not much user for a real terminal application.
>> >>
>> >> Dave
>> >>
>> >> On Sunday, September 9, 2012 8:17:45 AM UTC-5, James Moxham
>> (Dr_Acula)
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I believe there is a new video driver on the propeller forum that
>> can
>> do
>> >>> individual character colors if you want to. I've not used it, but it
>> can be
>> >>> done now.
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers, James Moxham
>> >>>
>> >>> On 9/09/2012 1:50 PM, Wayne Warthen wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Alex,
>> >>>
>> >>> The ParPortProp implements a reasonable subset of ANSI terminal
>> >>> emulation. However, it is not capable of setting individual
>> character
>> >>> colors. The Propeller video driver, in it's current state, only
>> allows
>> >>> color to be set for an entire line, which is not very useful for
>> terminal
>> >>> emulation. As you can see, it is used to change the color of the
>> >>> "information" line, but there is no mechanism for setting character
>> colors
>> >>> as you might expect using ANSI escape sequences.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>>
>> >>> Wayne
>> >>>
>> >>> On Saturday, September 8, 2012 8:28:43 PM UTC-7, Alexander wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've been happy as a clam with the ParPortProp expansion board.
>> I've
>> >>>> recently been fooling around with a lot of software from the
>> Humongous CP/M
>> >>>> Software Archive (http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/), and I
>> started to
>> >>>> wonder what terminal emulation the VGA console does. I do see on
>> the
>> >>>> description that it does 64 colors, but I haven't a clue how to
>> make
>> use of
>> >>>> them.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Any suggestions?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks!
>> >>>> - Alex
>> >>>
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