Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 347 from 2003/10/12
From: 1 AU, EU, DE/HU
CRT unit is a pain in the ass to port, with maintaining the compatibility, since the design of it expects a PC-alike textmode console with fixed resolution, with PC-style non-messaging/non-buffered keyboard I/O, which is _NOT_ the case on Amiga/MorphOS. Also the character set is different. To provide a better solution, i'm planning to implement an unit, which opens it's own window, and complettely emulates a PC-style console window in it. With this way, a complettely TP/DOS compatible CRT unit can be done on MorphOS. But this is a low-priority job, since the CRT unit is now a legacy unit.
To do CRT-like tricks on MOS console, better use the ABox API. (Soon to be completted.
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