Re: Acorn BBC Mode 7 (viewdata) conrtol codes
  By: vela025 to All on Fri Feb 09 2024 08:22 am

Hey Fred,

 > ...
 > that supports this i.e. a BBC Micro or Acorn Archimedes). With the machine
 > running the BBS most of the time I don't actually get to use it so I was
 > hoping to transition to SBBS but cannot figure out how to send the correct
 > control codes to send viewdata to a BBC Micro client, I've tried a few
 > different formats of files created in a teletext editor (replacing the .msg
 > menu files) but on the BBC Micro it displays the control codes as text
 > rather than interpreting them as teletext control codes over terminal. Is
 > what I'm trying to achieve possible within the currenet parameters of SBBS?

I'm not sure that SBBS can be "configured" to give out Mode 7 graphics - it only understands Raw, ANSI and C64 (I think).

I've always been interested in Viewdata (working for a service provider in Australia in 80's for Australia's national viewdata service) - I started creating a "shell" that rendered Mode 7.

Actually my "shell" makes SBBS work as a viewdata server and supports ANSI (on port 23) and Viewdata (on port 516), and while I have the rendering of viewdata frames done, I havent implemented rendering and replying to messages - I've started work on it (on the ANSI side, with FSX on page *10021#) but its far from complete.

I'll finish it one day, but I'm distracted by other things ...


...лоеп

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