Thanks, perhaps it might make sense to do a conditional compile for 100 vs. 102 graphic characters to handle people's preferences.
As far as the NEC goes, on the NEC PC-8201A & 8300, only 3 graphics characters are defined (128-130), the rest are blank, which is why my CHR100.CO implements 130-255 from the Model 100 so that Model 100-->NEC converted programs are pleasant to look at. Now on the original Japanese version of the PC-8201 (note this is without the "A"), it has about half of the graphic characters taken up by Kata-kana characters from ROM, but since the 8201A & 8300 were the only ones widely sold in the Western world I probably wouldn't spend the extra time pulling in all that Kata-kana character data. Gary On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:11 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020, 1:37 PM Gary Weber <g...@web8201.com> wrote: > >> Let's say someone hypothetically had the gumption (I love that word) to >> add the additional font data to the VT100 Terminal source file known as >> "Fonts.h", in order to define the additional characters from 128-255 with >> the Model T's graphics characters... >> >> If someone were going to do this, which of the graphics character sets >> would be the most desirable, Model 100, or the slightly tweaked Model 102? >> > > Probably 102. > > But they're almost the same so with enough gumption you could conditional > compile both ways. > > Are you thinking about doing NEC too? > > -- John. >
