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Post by ghstwlf on Feb 18, 2014 13:18:23 GMT -8
Hello,
When I use 8086tiny my xterminal is acting up bigtime, MS-DOS 5 is not usable at all. Is there a way to force SDL terminal emulation?
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Post by Adrian Cable on Feb 19, 2014 1:00:06 GMT -8
Hi,
It isn't possible to use SDL for text-mode applications. xterminal should work fine for text applications like MS-DOS 5 - can you post some screenshots to show how things are acting up? Also please provide some information on your platform.
Thanks!
-Adrian
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Post by ghstwlf on Feb 19, 2014 10:57:21 GMT -8
It looks something like this:  My system is Ubuntu 13.10 |
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Post by ghstwlf on Feb 19, 2014 11:04:26 GMT -8
 After install |
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Post by roytam1 on Feb 19, 2014 14:24:01 GMT -8
DOSShell tries to enter graphics mode that 8086tiny not supported, simple solution will be either remove dosshell from autoexec.bat or add a switch to force dosshell start in text mode.
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Post by ghstwlf on Feb 20, 2014 15:30:30 GMT -8
It was dosshell. It is now working but still looks like s**t some times, like in the installation.
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Post by Adrian Cable on Feb 20, 2014 15:52:10 GMT -8
ghstwlf,
Looks like it's because your terminal isn't using a font which includes the DOS high-ASCII line drawing characters. As a result, they get drawn as those question marks.
I am not sure what platform you are using, but if it can handle TTF fonts, then Google "Perfect DOS VGA 437". It implements the full character set, and I use it with iTerm on Mac OS to get good results with 8086tiny.
-Adrian
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Post by roytam1 on Feb 20, 2014 17:23:01 GMT -8
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Post by mobluse on Apr 26, 2014 21:53:16 GMT -8
I'm using 8086tiny from a GNOME Terminal in Ubuntu 10.04 connected via SSH to a running 8086tiny in Raspbian on Raspberry Pi. This GNOME Terminal has UTF-8, WINDOWS-1252 and IBM850 but not IBM437. My feature request is that it should be possible to set text-mode-only at startup so that SDL couldn't be used, and that one should be able to use UTF-8 in GNOME Terminal and that 8086tiny should convert between IBM437 and UTF-8 on the fly, since I believe all IBM437 characters are somewhere in UTF-8. That would help since then I could get IBM437 without needing to change anything in GNOME Terminal. As it is now, which is best to use in GNOME Terminal: WINDOWS-1252 or IBM850? By the way, I know of text-mode programs that run in SDL e.g. RTB: projects.drogon.net/return-to-basic/So it would be possible to make 8086tiny to also start-up as a pure SDL-program. An alternative to SDL might be Sixel-graphics as is used by this ZX81-emulator: www.weggetjes.nl/sg/zx81ce.html (WAS: rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/zx81ce.html ) Discuss: www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1292 |
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