Re: Propeller console IO board

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, hl...@aol.com 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, hl...@aol.com 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