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ANSI escapes for input (Developers)

posted by bocke, 07.02.2024, 08:45

> There are probably add-on ANSI drivers to support
> ANSI for Win32 before Windows 10 that I could use
> instead of HX (and they would be required for
> 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 for example, where command.com
> and thus ansi.sys is no longer available), but HX is
> good enough for me, for now.
>

What's wrong with the included ANSI.SYS that comes with W2k? I think that works well under NTVDM.

If you need an alternative ANSI.SYS for Windows, I think Jason Hood has one:
http://www.adoxa.altervista.org/ansicon/index.html

> Windows 2000 is good because it allows me to run
> OS/2 1.x programs as well.
Why would you want that? Isn't the most software also available on Windows 2000 itself?

Going over several layers of emulation usually is prone to bugs that are hard to debug.

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