tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) (08/12/87)
Just got a Tandy 3000 with EGA and Turbo C. Here are a couple of questions
concerning TC :
1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated
calls. Any reason, patch?
2. Turbo C has no support for graphics. Any solutions? Should I poke
directly into screen memory?
3. Would Microsoft C be any better in these regards?
Timccs016@ucdavis.UUCP (Patrick Tully) (08/13/87)
> Just got a Tandy 3000 with EGA and Turbo C. Here are a couple of questions > concerning TC : > > 1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated > calls. Any reason, patch? What do you mean? It worked for me fine. Do you have the DEVICE set? DEVICE = ANSI.SYS in config.sys. Patrick Tully pstully@ucdavis ..ucdavis!deneb!ccs016
jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) (08/13/87)
In article <661@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) writes: > 1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated > calls. Any reason, patch? I cannot verify this. Tim does not mention exactly what "associated calls" he is attempting to use, nor what Turbo C functions he is using to attempt to invoke them. However, a simple test shows that Turbo C can, indeed, take advantage of ANSI.SYS if it is loaded: #define ESC '\033' main() { printf("%c[H%c[J%c[7mthis should be inverse%c[m\n", ESC, ESC, ESC, ESC); } I assume that Tim is either 1. writing C code which accesses the BIOS rather than going through DOS (As far as I know, none of the standard Turbo C IO functions do this!), or 2. he does not have ANSI.SYS loaded, or 3. He is not generating ANSI escape sequences correctly.
todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) (08/13/87)
In article <661@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) writes: > 2. Turbo C has no support for graphics. Any solutions? Should I poke > directly into screen memory? There's a graphics demo program called 'BAR.C' on of of the disks that comes with Turbo C. In it are functions you can study/extract to build your own graphics routines. > > 3. Would Microsoft C be any better in these regards? I don't have my copy of Microsoft C 5.0 or QuickC yet (sent in my upgrade check and request though). However, this as-yet-unavailable release has a full graphics library (unlike previous versions of Microsoft C). Would any of you Microsoft C 5.0 beta-testers be willing to comment on this new library? -- Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Center for Teaching Excellence UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!todd ARPA: uhccux!todd@nosc.MIL INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU
jay@splut.UUCP (08/16/87)
In article <661@ur-cvsvax.UUCP>, tim@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tim Takahashi) writes: > Just got a Tandy 3000 with EGA and Turbo C. Here are a couple of questions > concerning TC : > > 1. Turbo C does not, apparently, honor ANSI.SYS and its associated > calls. Any reason, patch? My Turbo C does indeed support ANSI.SYS...in fact, I didn't realize that the ANSI escape string to clear the screen wouldn't work on machines that didn't run ANSI.SYS (gee, that sounds dumb...it struck me as BEING dumb when I realized the problem! :-) until I ran into a machine at work that didn't have ANSI.SYS loaded. Grrrrrr... > 2. Turbo C has no support for graphics. Any solutions? Should I poke > directly into screen memory? There are lots of nice, PC-specific things that TC doesn't support. Maybe some enterprising soul will write a package that implements the Turbo Pascal PC-specific calls (such as sound, graphics,...). > 3. Would Microsoft C be any better in these regards? Good question. Still, Microsoft C doesn't have the nice development environment of TC... -- >splut!<...Jay Maynard, K5ZC | uucp: ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!splut!jay "Don't ask ME about Unix... | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD (...e-i-e-i-o!) I speak SNA!" | CI$: 71036,1603 FidoNet: SysOp @106/64 The opinions herein are shared by neither of my cats, much less anyone else.