Joshua, You're welcome. And thanks for the kind words.
That was the entire goal: to make Ultrascreen useful enough to become a daily driver. It feels like this has been achieved, at least for me, especially since I can use the LOADER to relocate it in memory if it needs to coexist with other machine language programs. Cheers, Gary On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 8:26 AM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sep 8, 2026, at 7:24 PM, Gary Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I back-ported that rewrite to the original Model 100 version. (And > the NEC version!) > > It now only repaints the characters that actually changed, instead of > redrawing the whole screen every keystroke. The result is that TEXT now > keeps up with your typing the way it always should have, and the old > workaround, the TXTADD.BA <http://txtadd.ba/> appender, is essentially > unnecessary now. > > > Gary, this is incredibly impressive, thank you for taking the time and > effort to do it. I've only had a few minutes to try it out this morning but > I am certainly more than impressed. It seems like once the NEC logjam was > broken, you've made incredible progress on making Ultrascreen the best it > can be wherever we find it. > > I've always been a fan of the program and seeing what you've done with it > has made it even better as a daily driver. > > So: thank you. >
