I had tried compile text adventure adv_a.c
I was need to write zcc +pps adv_a.c -lndos
(I dont know what is lndos, but for zx it was the same name)
else a few errors were printed: unknown FCLOSE, OPEN labels and so on...
So, ADV_A.EXE works :)
But, I have question
How by Z88DK I can use text attributes and cursor location?



Alexander Shabarshin (shaos@mail.ru)
http://www.shaos.ru

Looks like that's the first incarnation of the libraries - the ndos libraries contains generic dummy file libraries for those systems with no file i/o or with multiple ones.

I'm working on a port of the ANSI engine over to the Sprinter - this is effectively a vt100 terminal which allows colours and position to happen. Positioning works, but many of the other attributes (colour, dim, inverse, underline etc) are not working too well. I can't seem to find any documentation on the site to specify how to define the attribute parameter to WRCHAR. I'm guessing that it is possible to change the background colour?

ADV_A.EXE works only in emulator :(
It's not working at real Sprinter. I can test why it not.
So, you may send me e-mail and we can talk about colors, now I'm adding BIOS text/color features and soon I will public new SPRINT version with new BIOS functions support.

Alexander Shabarshin (shaos@mail.ru)
http://www.shaos.ru

> I can't seem to find any documentation on the site to specify how to
define the attribute parameter to WRCHAR. I'm guessing that it is possible
to change the background colour?

The DSS functions (57h) RDCHAR and (58h) WRCHAR used to low-level
operations with a Sprinter's text screen. It's not best way for the regular
text output. It's a slow method. If you need to print some color text at
the part of text screen (window), then I recommend to use DSS function
(5Ah) WINREST, which will be output chars and attributes from the buffer.
If you need to print color text in terminal mode then I recommend to use
BIOS functions for color printing. (81h, 82h, 83h, 85h, 86h, 87h, 88h, 8Bh,
8Ch)

Color attribute:



bit7       - blink

bit6,5,4   - background (0...7) RGB

bit3,2,1,0 - foreground (0..15) IRGB



    0  Black

    1  Blue

    2  Green

    3  Cyan

    4  Red

    5  Magenta

    6  Brown

    7  White

    8  Gray

    9  Bright blue

   10  Bright green

   11  Bright cyan

   12  Bright red

   13  Bright magenta

   14  Yellow

   15  Bright white

> ADV_A.EXE works only in emulator :(
> It's not working at real Sprinter. I can test why it not.

I think that a reason is a lost registers, because DSS do not save it.

Thanks for the colour info, I'll add support for the BIOS calls when I can test them on the emulator.

I didn't think I made any assumptions about the state of registers after DSS calls (other than the return values) - cerrtainly fgetc_cons and fputc_cons (which will be the only ones used by adv_a) don't.

It just my assumption about problem. DSS don't save any registers which
used in the function code.

;this don't working on the Sprinter, but working in emulator.

	LD IX,something

	LD HL,something

	LD B,something

LOOP	LD A,(HL)

	INC HL

	LD C,DSS_FUNCTION

	RST #10

	DJNZ LOOP

	LD A,(IX)



;this will work both on the Sprinter and in the emulator.

	LD IX,something

	PUSH IX

	LD HL,something

	LD B,something

LOOP	LD A,(HL)

	INC HL

	PUSH HL

	PUSH BC

	LD C,DSS_FUNCTION

	RST #10

	POP BC

	POP HL

	DJNZ LOOP

	POP IX

	LD A,(IX)

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When we will be able to use Z88DK for file input/output and color text printing in Sprinter? :)

Alexander Shabarshin (shaos@mail.ru)
NedoPC Project

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When we will be able to use Z88DK for file input/output and color text printing in Sprinter?

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