hohensee@uiucdcs.UUCP (09/12/84)
#N:uiucdcs:10400157:000:312 uiucdcs!hohensee Sep 12 01:26:00 1984 <> might anyone in net land have had any experience working with graphics and the DEC Rainbow? i should like to (consider) writing a LOGO for the Rainbow, and realized that such information represents an important starting point. any suggestions? thanks much, bill hohensee hohensee@uiucdcs 217-333-5272
SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU (Frank da Cruz) (04/16/86)
Has anyone ever succeeded in writing an assembler program for the DEC Rainbow that senses whether the graphics option is installed, and then if it is, either (a) allows changing of foreground/background text mode colors, and/or (b) draws a line between two arbitrary points on the screen? The Rainbow documentation is obscure on these points, and the only software I've ever seen that allows the user to take advantage of Rainbow graphics is GW Basic, and when you exit the GW Basic environment, everything goes back to normal monochrome text. Reportedly, there's also a Turbo Pascal Graphics package for the Rainbow. My interest, however, is simply to allow the SET TERMINAL COLOR command from the forthcoming release of MS-DOS Kermit to work on the Rainbow, and possibly also to include some simple Tektronix emulation. Some small MS assembler sample programs would be a real help. Naturally, the results will be shared with the world. -------