Re: AsciiOS ;)

"CeeJay" <use...@ceejay.cjb.REMOVEnet> writes:

> > Font used will be... good-old DOS VGA 16x8 font (80x25 text mode :)
> > We will use ASCII 32..127, and mabe some other special characters >127, we
> > will deside later
>
> If you are going to make a textbased GUI ( a contradiction in terms actually
> :) )

I suppose the old term WIMP (Windows Icons Menues and Pointer) will
need resurrectiong for this.


> or frontend or shell whatever you want to call it, I think you should not
> limit yourself to merely ASCII

Was that not the entire aim?


> - Make your own font , and manipulate the
> colorindex so you can achive better color than the usual boring one ..
> preferably customizable.

Colorisation: Give the user an config option to set fore- and
background color. Possibly separate ones for empty space, window frame,
title, menu, user area, status line, tray bar.


> acording to what the GUI wants to do .. very useful if you want to display a
> moving cursor that is not just a big blinking block .. I think some of the old
> Norton programs used something like it

Some of them definitely reloaded the entire character set, which
together with color setting, allowed them to simulate even shaded
window borders.

Hey, while you are at it, wny not suggest Tek4013 or ReGIS or Sixel
graphics escape sequences? :-) Hmmm, I may be the only dinosaur here
to still know what those were.

But that is not ASCII any more.


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