On Sunday 23 December 2007 20:20, Ensor wrote:
But like everyone else, you've missed the
point. The OP was
originally asking about standard IBM cards, not about VESA "standard"
cards which are a different kettly of fish....
That must be why didn't add VESA 132-column mode to his VT100 emuatlor.
Oh wait...
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 09:42, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> I've just posted a new version of LAPTALK, which supports 132 column
> mode. In order to enable it, you must configure the 132 column video
> mode under "General Parameters". 0-255 are standard BIOS modes, and
> 256-511 are VESA modes (sorry, but you have to set the mode in
> decimal). It also supports set/reset "column" (132 column) mode now
> (if the mode is configured).
Guys ... get a life!
FWIW, I really don't care for or against VESA - I just wanted to provide
the capability to do 132 columns because someone had asked for it that
had a good chance of working on more than one type of card. You seem to
have snipped the bit about FIND132, the program I wrote to seek out 132
column modes from ALL available video modes.
FWIW-2 - So far, of about 1/2 dozen systems I've found 132 column modes
on, only one of them has been a VESA mode (and iirc it had a vendor
proprietary standard mode that was equivalent).
I've got a couple more pending updates to the program (now called PC100),
including a fix for a bug where configured attributes/colors got misplaced
when switching column modes, and semi-support for DEC private mode '?4' -
although the PC can't do smooth scrolling in text modes, I've implemented
"slow scroll" which limits scrolling speed to about 6 lines/second (same
as a VT-100 when smooth scrolling), and a couple of other minor goodies.
Of anyone is actually interested in the program because they want to
emulate a VT-100 (.vs. arguing about what I intended, or if VESA is a good
thing), let me know and I'll get it updated - otherwise I'll wait until
later in the week, as I'll probably work on it a bit over the holiday...
Dave
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