Subj : Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
To   : Deavmi
From : Jagossel
Date : Mon Nov 19 2018 06:34:00

Deavmi, to Jagossel...

 De> Idk what terminal you using all I know is how to operate vt100
 De> terminals. From the way I use it I don't have helper functions but
 De> remember the codes needed to be sent to stdout for the terminal (a
 De> vt100 one) to interpret. I could use a library that held these codes
 De> and did such printing for me but eh.

Deavmi! Long time, man. Welcome back!

The application that I was working in back then has already been released: 
Cobalt (https://github.com/jagossel/cobalt); which is my answer to 
providing an open source algernative to TheDraw or ACiD. I found out that
ANSI files uses those printing characters, and so having them printing on 
the screen was pointless (except for full screen view, good for taking 
screenshots).

At the time, I was using DOSBox on my cell phone. So, it had to be ANSI with 
CP437. I was able to test it on real hardware with FreeDOS and discovered 
issues with navigation. Those issues exist in virtualized environments of
FreeDOS as well. I got two issues fix, I just need to find time to commit 
the changes and push them to Github.

-jag
Code it, Script it, Automate it!

.... Fear not! I know how to write a "Hello, World!" program!
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