Hello WIll,
I think I have played around the most with wordstar 3.3. I never tried 4.0 and
that was different source code which didn't agree with my poking around with
DDT. I've seen 3.3 on different web sites for download. You can patch some of
the keyboard lookup tables to agree with the M100 keyboard, arrows and such and
so that the DEL key deletes the character under the cursor and the backspace
key erases the previous character. You would to look at 'Wordstar
Customization Notes' (there is a copy on archive.org) and while it is for 3.0,
the general layout is the same and the lookup tables can be found in the .com
file with a bit of searching even though the addresses in 3.3 are not the same
as 3.0. I don't think wordstar would be happy with a 40 x 8 character display.
I posted on this before and it is in the archives somewhere........
Jonathan
----Original Message----
>From : [email protected]
Date : 2024-03-19 - 22:34 (CEST)
To : [email protected]
Subject : Re: [M100] mvt100 and the pc terminal
Hi Jonathan,
What version of Wordstar?
Thanks,
Will
On 3/19/24 3:42 AM,
[email protected] wrote:
If you are going to play a lot with CP/M on the M100, the MVT100 device is a
good thing to have, since a LOT of the CP/M programs want a bigger display.
With the MVT100, you can get 80x24 characters after you connect a VGA device.
I have used a VGA to HDMI converter and actually can use an android tablet (or
even my phone) as a display. You can run Wordstar under CP/M on the M100.
CP/M adventure got a bit messed up on the M100 screen but on the MVT100 it was
just fine.
The device also can take a keyboard and then it runs more or less like a real
VT100 but I don't think the gold key etc. are mapped......
Jonathan
----Original Message----
From :
[email protected]
Date : 2024-03-19 - 01:07 (CEST)
To :
[email protected]
Subject : [M100] mvt100 and the pc terminal
I'm a little confused about the MVT100...
on this page:
https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=MVT100_Desktop_Application
It sounds like it's a terminal emulator for connecting to the M100 over
serial. But somewhere else I saw it as some kind of adapter to talk to VGA. I'm
guessing it's both - adapter gadget provides the VGA out thing and provides a
server for the pc terminal app? I downloaded the software and it runs fine on
linux under wine (to the degree that it appears to start up and not crash. I
couldn't figure out how to get it to talk to my m100... so I'm guessing I need
the hardware gadget in addition to my rexcpm to get it working?
Thanks,
Will
