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11:30:01 <Mat2> hello
11:30:17 <tangentstorm> heya :)
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11:36:51 <Mat2> hi tangentstorm !
11:37:24 <Mat2> what's new ?
11:39:59 <tangentstorm> slowly working on a little text editor in pascal
11:39:59 <tangentstorm> and cleaning up a lot of my old pascal code...
11:39:59 <tangentstorm> hopefully will end up with an editor scriptable in retro :)
11:40:34 <Mat2> that's nice because a good editor is needed
11:40:49 <Mat2> (i'm thinking of something like vi)
11:41:31 <tangentstorm> so far i have a line editor like gnu readline
11:41:47 <tangentstorm> and i have a little app that can view files and scroll up and down
11:41:59 <tangentstorm> now i'm putting them together
11:42:08 <tangentstorm> while also fixing lots of other old programs
11:43:19 <Mat2> I'm working on metro, at current on a new VDP core which is implementable in a FPGA or ASIC
11:43:35 <tangentstorm> nice :)
11:43:45 <Mat2> and finsih the compiler of course
11:44:02 <Mat2> ^finish
11:44:15 <tangentstorm> i found someone's old pac-man clone for CP/M text mode, written in turbo pascal
11:44:55 <tangentstorm> https://github.com/nickelsworth/gnasher
11:46:42 <Mat2> looks like a clone of these version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUxmqe3jA4
11:47:52 <tangentstorm> haha :)
11:48:18 <tangentstorm> could be. i found it on archive.org, searching for turbo pascal
11:48:42 <tangentstorm> other than that and what you see on github, i don't know anything about it :)
11:50:03 <Mat2> there was a wide range of arcade clones for CP/M. Some even with graphic though GSX (the GKS kernel which later evolve into GEM)
11:51:33 <tangentstorm> i was kind of thinking it might be a good test case for my pascal compiler
11:52:22 <Mat2> yes, but you will need some terminal emulation (ADM31 or ANSI)
11:52:28 <tangentstorm> my own code uses objects and classes, whereas this is straight procedures... so there's less to parse
11:52:44 <tangentstorm> that was the first thing i wrote in retro :)
11:52:50 <tangentstorm> vt.rx
11:52:55 <Mat2> ah ok
11:53:07 <tangentstorm> turbo pascal shipped with "crt.pas" which was a *tiny* little abstraction layer
11:53:18 <tangentstorm> very much like what retro already provides out of the box
11:53:54 <tangentstorm> with the colored text device i mean
11:55:21 <tangentstorm> i don't even think this code uses pointers.
11:55:51 <Mat2> I have found a way o reduce the memory demands for display generation and enlarge the colour depth to 16 bit
11:55:56 <tangentstorm> nope.. everything's compleetly static
11:56:07 <tangentstorm> oh yeah?
11:56:16 <Mat2> selectable for each scanline of a character
11:58:34 <Mat2> the display now interpret character code $FF als prefix to load 14 colour registers (for each scan-line) with actual foreground and background colours. These registers are latches to the signal generator
11:58:59 <Mat2> so colours can be changed in between display generation
11:59:19 <tangentstorm> by scanline do you mean the characters could be striped?
12:00:28 <Mat2> no each character is build of 14 scanlines of 8 pixels from the chacter generator
12:01:06 <tangentstorm> but the scanlines can each be a different color?
12:01:33 <Mat2> changing colours means writing new values to the 14 colour latches in-time of display generation
12:01:58 <Mat2> so yes, each scan-line can have different fore and background colours
12:02:23 <tangentstorm> so you could make the letters striped or rainbow or gradients
12:02:36 <Mat2> yes
12:02:41 <tangentstorm> cool :)
12:04:01 <Mat2> and the best is: An attribute map is now obsolete
12:04:26 <tangentstorm> i have to go run an errand, but this sounds pretty neat. i look forward to trying it :)
12:05:54 <Mat2> see you
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18:22:59 <erider> hi all 
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