[M100] DVI alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread James Zeun 
As I'm going to become a DVi owner, I thought I'd pose this question.

Are there other methods of outputting to a monitor with my M100?

Re: [M100] DVI alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread Mike Stein 
Not directly to a monitor but you can redirect the screen to the serial or 
parallel port; that would let you display on a terminal such as what Philip and 
Charles described, or even an old PC running a terminal program. Connect the 
terminal/PC to your big screen TV and connect the M100 to the PC via Bluetooth 
and relax on the couch.

There are some gotchas though, mostly to do with correctly moving the cursor 
around on the foreign screen.
  - Original Message - 
  From: James Zeun 
  To: m...@bitchin100.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:46 PM
  Subject: [M100] DVI alternatives


  As I'm going to become a DVi owner, I thought I'd pose this question.


  Are there other methods of outputting to a monitor with my M100?

Re: [M100] DVI alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread John R. Hogerhuis 
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 7:48 PM Mike Stein  wrote:

> Not directly to a monitor but you can redirect the screen to the serial or
> parallel port; that would let you display on a terminal such as what Philip
> and Charles described, or even an old PC running a terminal program.
> Connect the terminal/PC to your big screen TV and connect the M100 to the
> PC via Bluetooth and relax on the couch.
>
> There are some gotchas though, mostly to do with correctly moving the
> cursor around on the foreign screen.
>

ISTR we were working on that.

It would be nice to, from BASIC

a) Change the Width + Height
b) Redirect I/O to the port
c) Have a working terminal to host on a PC that understands all M100 codes.
Maybe VT52 is enough. Of course this machine won't know the Model 100
character set > 127

But I don't thing we have all that do we?
We need a program to set the width, height and do the redirect.
Would be nice to have a terminal that can display all Model 100 characters
and handle all escapes.

Then it would be a true DVI alternative, at least as far as the display.

-- John.