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ANSI escapes for input (Developers)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 09.02.2024, 10:00

> > 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.
I am already using that - for OUTPUT. And as you noted, I need to go to NTVDM. But I still want to run 32-bit software. Win32 executables. And hence - HX.

And for INPUT, I needed to modify my C library (PDPCLIB) to generate the appropriate ANSI escapes for cursor movement (that other application software expects).

> > 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?
I am interested in 16-bit software too (as you apparently are too if you are still running MSDOS). So OS/2 1.x is an important part of that.

> Going over several layers of emulation usually is prone to bugs that are
> hard to debug.
The choice is either this or not working at all.

And also I'm the one who is doing any debugging. I might be the only one using it too. :-)

BFN. Paul.

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