Re: [N8VEM: 14608] Re: ParPortProp Terminal Emulation

["J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjac...@mac.com>]

How many cogs are in use, with the current ParPortProp firmware?

- Alex

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Wayne Warthen <wwar...@gmail.com> 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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