Hi!
I tried to find ZANSI.SYS but found that it is nowerdays really hard to
get... Finally I found it there:
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/user/tytso/msdos/screen/
So, ZANSI Version 1.2 is from Thomas Hanlin III, who used NANSI 2.2 from
Daniel Kegel as a basis. The source code is included. It is from 1987.
I remember that I preferred ZANSI.SYS over NANSI.SYS and all other ANSI
drivers, because ZANSI was more light-weight i.e. it used as little RAM
as possible while at the same time being the fastest ANSI driver out
there (at that time). Sure, not all functions from NANSI are included,
but what I was after was the accellerated text output only.
So IF FreeDOS was ment not only for modern systems but also for real
retro hardware, I think it may be of interest to also include the option
to choose ZANSI over NANSI.
Just my 2ยข.
Cheers,
A.
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