[Coco] Is anyone using Dynastar yet?

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sat Jan 7 21:33:21 EST 2012


Lothan wrote:
> -----Original Message----- From: gene heskett
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 8:05 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Is anyone using Dynastar yet?
>
> On Saturday, January 07, 2012 07:52:53 PM gene heskett did opine:
>
>> I now have the manual that came with that copy of version 3.4 of Dynastar
>> (all of that has now been declared Public Domain in case anyone is worried
>> about the copyright status, see a post on the Flex User Group list) but
>> while the two files I need to play with are discussed, its only an
>> overview, with zero definitions of what bite does what. Since it uses the
>> scred idea of a termset file to adapt it to the various coco/ansi/term
>> screens, there might be something about the termset files variables in the
>> level 2 development kit which I have, but there is a second file, also
>> looked for in /dd/sys, called ds.init, which may have similar functions,
>> and while I have one of those, it sure doesn't resemble the dump I located
>> somewhere in the first 14 pages of google hits, 95% of which were for
>> Dynastar Ski's.
><snip>
> Is that possibly a newer version of DynaStar that uses the termset file? If so,
> I'd love to get a copy. The only versions I can remember use a gotoxy module,
> but my mind isn't quite what it used to be. There's quite a collection on
> http://os9usergroup.com/fufu_downloads.htm, including DynaStar 2.3 and what
> appears to be the source code on dynas23.dsk.
>

Guys,
The version of Dynastar on my system, "3.4 - Color Computer 3, Level Two", does 
not use ds.init but rather uses SYS/termset.

I hardly ever use Dynastar but it runs fine in an 80 column window. All of my 
Coco window entries in termset use
  $02\X\Y:$20:$1f$31::$0c:$04:$1f$30:$1f$20:$1f$21:



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