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- From: ab588@yfn.ysu.edu (joseph sabatino)
- Subject: Re: CGS and all that good stuff...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.061834.9938@news.ysu.edu>
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- Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:18:34 GMT
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- Hi Bill, remember me? I think you called my board once or twice.
- anyways, your message on the net was sent to me for a personal reply.
-
- First of all, I'm sorry that you didn't like using the CGS handler. I
- spent alot of time and effort into it, trying to do two things. First,
- to establish some kind of graphic standard for XL/E computers. The
- second thing was to provide a handler which works with the BEST term
- program ever written for these machines. From the many users that
- choose CGS mode on my bbs, and from the many Oasis, Pro!, and Carina
- sysops who download and use the CGS bbs modules, I guess it has made
- telecom more enjoyable for more than a few people.
-
- If you think setting up CGS is a pain, try installing some drivers (by
- hand) on an IBM system. Without an auto-install program, it can take
- several hours, or even days.
-
- The CGS handler can work with any decent dos that allows normal
- alpha numeric characters for filenames. If you are using a version
- of MyDos that doesn't support this, then I suggest that you switch to
- Sparta 3.2d.
-
- There are now 20 official CGS fonts, with several more recently
- submitted for inclusion on the official CGS font assignment list.
- These fonts have been sent in from all around the world. Just this week,
- I assisted a sysop in Amsterdam Holland in getting his bbs to support
- CGS. CGS boards are poping up all around the world. But anyways, the
- CGS font system is very flexible, allowing up to 99 fonts to be
- installed at any one time. This ammounts to 101,376 bytes of font
- data! Granted, I doubt that any bbs will ever require THAT many fonts to
- be online at any one time. But most will have anywhere between five thru
- a dozen.
-
- CGS is much more than just fonts. It also includes colors and
- graphics. The fonts are just the easiest and quickest to use.
-
- One of the main reasons why the CGS handler doesn't exclusivly draw
- text to a graphics screen, is because such a system couldn't keep up with
- 9600 baud. If it can't handle 9600, I'm not interested in it. BobTerm/CGS
- can easily handle 9600 baud.
-
- The fonts don't HAVE to be in a ramdisk. They can also be placed on a
- hard drive. The reason why they cannot be placed on a normal floppy
- disk is because they are too slow. Another reason is because of
- something called concurrent i/o. Simply put, if you have concurrent
- mode enabled for a modem, and try any i/o to a normal floppy drive, you
- will crash the operating system. Period.
-
- I'm starting to compile a list of boards that support CGS. Here's a
- couple you might try.
-
-
- Message # 02
- Title CGS boards
- From dave scott
- To Tom Hunt
- Time 2:39:00am
- Date Sun 2-Feb-92
-
- ..........A bit further and Thanks
- Tom for allowing us to be Dl'd here..
- The Spirit Accects Articals from all
- 8-bit users.... So ya got something
- you want to share? Let Tom know. I
- call often and will pick them up from
- Tom if he don't mind! and get ya all
- published asap!
- Dave Scott
- Coach Dave
- Desert Illusion
- BBS
- 1-519-457-3998
- And Before anyone asks Yes I am a
- coach I coach Football in the
- cityleague as a Defencive
- Co-ordinator... And yes we won
- Last year!!!! hahaha..
-
-
- Message # 03
- Title Maniac Haven BBS
- From Mr.Maniac
- To All
- Time 12:54:00pm
- Date Sun 9-Feb-92
-
-
- Carina 2.4X plus software! running
- 24 hours at 3/12/2400 baud! 60 Megs
- of online storage! Soon to have CGS
- support!
-
- M a n i a c H a v e n
- B B S
-
- 707-447-9668
-
- Or better yet, call the CGS support bbs, at 419-368-4413. The
- whole board is set up for CGS. But you'll find the online hi-res demos,
- and the current versions of the files, under the Z function from the
- main menu. Perhaps the best demo is the game demo. You use
- control-cursor-up/down/left/right to move your little man around multiple
- screens. It's graphics are kind of like Ultima or Phantasie. BTW, the
- cgs handler is up to version .093 now. The board is sending out CGS
- .093 control codes, so if your handler is an earlier version, you'll
- get control codes on your screen.
-
- Feel free to try and give XL/E users a better system, using QUICK,
- Action!, AVUE PATHER, or any other language. Both BobTerm and the CGS
- handler were written in 100% assembly language. If you try and duplicate a
- 2.5k CGS handler in Action!, you'd probably end up with a 13k module.
- And then you'd have to add a special high-speed screen handler of
- somekind, and don't forget the file xfer protocals, etc.
- --
- Joe Sabatino-->ab588@yfn.ysu.edu
-