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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Virgil Dupras
57fd14b0b3 sms: fix cursor mis-display in text mode
In CURSOR!, I was using a write commande to read from VRAM and the
emulator didn't properly behave and did as if everything was fine.

The result on a real SMS was that the cursor would contain the
inverted glyph of the contents of the *old* cursor position.
2020-11-16 13:10:04 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
c8be290b88 sms: add cursor indicator to text mode
I do this by adding an inverted version of all glyphs in the upper
range of the pattern memory. This is a big waste of the pattern
space (only one inverted character is needed at once), but it's the
simplest way to proceed. I'll change this if I ever need more
pattern space.

Also, remove _blank. It was wastefully blanking the whole memory.
Only the name table needs to be blanked on initialization.
2020-11-16 11:13:38 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
cf79ceefea sms: add cursor visual indicator in VDP mode 4
This required the change of CURSOR! signature: we now supply it
with both old and new cursor positions.

Also, fix broken _bs in Grid subsystem.
2020-11-16 10:05:48 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
b1e162b8a3 grid: change the meaning of CELL!
Replace the "g" arg (glyph) with "c" (character). The reason why "g"
was used was to save a "0x20 -" operation at all CELL! implementations,
but this came with too big a drawback: it made CELL! hardly usable
outside of the Grid subsystem, mostly because the user of CELL! would
often have to do "0x20 -".

For example, I want the SMS's Pad driver to use CELL! directly instead
of having to do EMIT+XYPOS-messing-around. I would have had to do a
"0x20 -" there.
2020-11-16 09:11:47 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
7bfec5d9e9 grid: Add CURSOR! to the grid protocol
With the move of CVM's forth to the grid protocol, we've lost the
cursor's visual indication. Now, we have it back.

The challenge now is in implementing it in SMS' text mode. In mode
4, it's easy to mark a cell as inverted, but in text mode, that's
not possible.
2020-11-16 08:41:09 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
d3049b2404 grid: add XYMODE
In VE on the SMS, the first contents line would always be cleared
because of NEWLN being called when the FBUF would spit its last
char. Inconvenient...

I've added a "graphical" mode to the grid subsystem to inhibit this
behavior in a graphical situation such as in VE.

Also, write a more complete Grid documentation.
2020-11-14 22:35:08 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
7722db0762 Fix mis-documentation in 8086 boot code comments 2020-11-14 20:28:44 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
c939c7e84a cvm: use Grid in /cvm/forth
Also, fixed broken AT-XY in Grid...
2020-11-14 20:08:18 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
95ab1ad588 Transform "blk/" folders into "blk.fs" text files
Working in "blk/" folder from a modern system is harder than it
should be. Moving blocks around is a bit awkward, grepping is a
bit less convenient than it could be, git blame has troubles
following, etc.

In this commit, we modify blkpack and blkunpack to work with single
text files with blocks being separated by a special markup.

I think this will make the code significantly more convenient to
work into.
2020-11-14 18:34:15 -05:00