Re: [MiNT] Conholio 0.7r

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2010/7/15 Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>:
> 14 jul 2010 kl. 12.28 skrev Vincent Rivière:
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>> Even the TERM variable is automatically set to "linux", we don't have to mess with any configuration step.
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> The idea is to mimic the Linux console, because that means I can add some basic extensions like mouse, window title handling etc without having to implement the horror of e.g. XTerm.
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>> I don't know if you are aware of this, but the ncurses tests are vary good candidates for testing a terminal implementation. I have recompiled them for MiNT today:
>> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/unsupported/ncurses-5.7-mint-20090821-bin-mint-test-20100714.tar.bz2
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>> They are just small independant MiNT programs, you just have to unpack the archive and run them from Conholio. I have seen some visual artifacts, but most of them behave very well :-)
>> The visual rendering should be compared to the same programs on Linux.
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> Very very good idea! I'm currently doing tests with VTTEST to cure some boo-boo in the VT100 implementation. I don't think I'll implement stuff like double-width text (though double hight will be available in the next version), but the goal is to pass most of the tests.
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>> Long life to Conholio !
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> I appreciate the feedback very much :) It made my day.
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> -- PeP
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is there a scrollback buffer?

is fullscreen set by default? (according to the .cfg it is) if so is
there any restriction on res (im using ARAnyM 1376x768)

nice work by the way, thanks for the included medieval font too

Cheers

Paul