Sure would be nice if somebody would add code to display the ‘raw’ input 8 bits 
coming from the keyboard on the other two hex displays.  

As to VT100, should be nothing more than expanding the central CASE statement 
after an ESC key is detected.  I remember doing something like this for the 
LAVA video board. The keyboard input is tricky however, you will have to dig 
into Chip Gracey’s code (shown here). 

 

John

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of yoda
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 8:26 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [N8VEM-S100:6547] Re: Propeller console IO board

 

Hi 

 

I originally wrote the code for propIO on the N8VEM ECB board that I designed 
with Andrew Lynch.  It was based on code by Vince Briel and his propTerm.  
Apparently a snapshot of this code was taken and modified.  It was not complete 
so I would expect there are bugs you are finding.  Wayne Warthen took my code 
and enhanced it by adding more ANSI escape sequences and verified.  I plan to 
take that code and modify it for the S100 board (I am tired of the bugs too) 
and put proper Propasm for the I/O interface.  I will not support the Hex 
display on the board but make it super fast and reliable with the current 
Console I/O board for the S100.  I also plan to drop in code from kuroneko on 
the propeller forums to support either 100x50 or 100x75 character screen.  It 
is 3rd on my queue of things to do, so if you can hang tight I will have a 
better driver in a couple of weeks or so.

 

Dave

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:03:57 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:

Hi Josh,

I was able to follow along also. However, I am not sure how to do any 
programming.  Now my concern is the following.

 

Many programs like word processors can be configured to work with the VT100 
terminal. The VT100 is pretty common. So I think that the VT100 emulator on the 
console IO should be as compatible as possible.  Even if the BOLD, UNDERLINE, 
and BLINKING are not supported I think that REVERSE VIDEO should have the 
correct escape sequence.  According to documentation that I have the sequence 
should be ESC[7m. 

 

I  have also checked on the sequence for cursor control and everything seems to 
match with the sequence for the VT100.

 

How hard would it be to modify the .spin programs so that REVERSE VIDEO has the 
correct code?

 

Thanks,

 

Harold  

On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 11:07:38 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:

Hi all,

 

Just finished the propeller console IO board and I have it running with the 
8080A CPU board with Josh's rev 2.4 ROM. I downloaded the firmware to run the 
screen and keyboard as a VT100 terminal. That works pretty well but some of the 
ESC codes for screen control don't work. Has anyone done any more programming 
through Parallax on the .spin programs?

 

Just curious.

 

Thanks,

Harold

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