>  >> reduce your designing&development overheads:-)
> 
>  > *smiles* take me to your leader... :)
> 
> DO you mean you're interested? If so I'll email a list of pins that'll need to
> be brought out to the fake-z80 socket, dimensions and register allocations
> that we implement(It's slightly different to yours and my original!)

Yes please :) If we had bigger SAM boxes we could put the design we've 
got on the MultiROM, but we haven't :(
 
>  >> 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...
> 
> Feel free to Zip up the ascii'ised source and send me a copy and I'll
> give you the benifit of my enormouse intelect<GRIN>

*smiles* will do, the moment I get chance :)

>  >> 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...
> 
> Ok, but hooking it into scripts will allow the flexibility to make it future
> proof (sort of;)

Yeah -- don't worry, I've got it covered. You can even call scripts 
within scripts -- fully nested to 256 levels is the plan... And I'm 
sticking an up-to-4Mb disk cache in the system...

>  > There's nothing wrong with Native mode y'know -- it does the job!
> 
> Exactly what job is that? Oh yes provides a launchpad to write your own
> operting system yourself to support your own standard applications;-)

Yep! Got it in one!

Simon

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