[Coco] OS9 display server added to DW4

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Way way back... there was a terminal program (called OS9Term) written by a friend of mine for DOS (and uploaded to Compuserve at the time) that did a lot of the OS9 display codes as well, including overlay windows and screen resolution changes. It was good enough to play a few text window games and run some text editors over the serial port.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Mark Marlette wrote:

> 
> Very neat !!!!
> 
> Nice job!!!!
> 
> 
> Mark
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:15:33 AM
> Subject: [Coco] OS9 display server added to DW4
> 
> Yet another video demonstrating yet another new feature..
> 
> http://youtu.be/7C-QvdX2bNQ
> 
> This time I've used the /N virtual channels as OS9 window devices.
> The L2 windowing calls are
> sent over the channel and interpreted by the display server which
> draws the event on your client PC.
> They work pretty nicely, and this isn't really tied to DW other than
> the use of the /N devices as
> transport for the data.   The client could be packaged separately and
> talk directly to a serial port with
> out the DW protocol, or even better over direct tcp/ip if we ever have
> that option.
> 
> Anyway, full screen text programs work perfectly, and some graphical
> applications work fine.
> Others don't yet, but I think with a bit more experimentation I can
> get nearly any of them running
> remotely, including MultiView and other mouse driven programs.
> 
> If you work remotely on an OS9 system via telnet or a serial line, you
> might find this really handy
> since terminal emulation just isn't possible with lots of OS9
> programs.  Hope to have a download
> available this weekend (it will not be perfect).
> 
> -Aaron
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