> Based on German prices the generic board will probably be quite competative > price-wise despite the use of a GAL and a pair of 'LS646 chips! > Would simplify things quite a bit if the generic interface were used via a > fake z80 40pin dil upgrade socket on the Multi-Rom motherboard, certainly > reduce your designing&development overheads:-)
*smiles* take me to your leader... :) > > Termite however is coming along nicely... I've been using it loads on the > > net, and it works fine and dandy... > > ANSI glitches sorted now? Yep... although I've got to rewrite it all using a 4 table finite state machine :( And I've got to keep a copy of the text and attributes off screen as well... but I may put a "fast" copy of the software on the disk as well, which is optimised to the max for ANSI... > > It's going to have a compiled scripting language built in which will be > > powerful enough to write your own BBS doors, even file transfer protocols > > in!!! > > That would be nice! A usefull facility to have in a script language will be > to be able to calculate CRC or CRC-32 of one or more strings ie > a reset crc acumulator function with a crc_string function and end_crc > function > It would allow EMSI logons to BBS's and EMSI Fido mail sessions. > That's one thing that's seriously lacking in z80 scripted terminals:-( Waaaaaaayyyyy ahead of you -- I've got the IEMSI specs from Fidonet, and I'm plugging them in as we speak... > > ps the scripting may only be for version 2, as will fax and possibly > > slip/PPP support :) :) :) > > Fax has been done on a z80 before ie PCWFax by Andrew Margolis > I've disasembled it and have been meaning to port it to ProDos, not got around > to it yet as it's about 150k of source code and lots of CP/M+ specific > calls:-( > slip/PPP now that would be a z80 first! could even tempt me into booting > native > mode;-) *grins* There's nothing wrong with Native mode y'know -- it does the job! > Keep up the good work! Will do! Roger, Wilco and out! Simon
