If WordTsar starts with Control Codes not showing, you will not see a cursor until you have some text entered. (wxWidgets doesn t let you change paper type on the fly) pt command can only be used once per document, all others are ignored. Show and Hide Scroll Bar, Ruler, Top Status Line, Bottom Status Bar (via Preferences)
If something breaks, turn dot command display on and everything should work as expected again.Ĭleaned up the code a bit by getting rid of uneccesary debugĪdded preferences dialog for screen color, etcĬenter, left, right, and justify status indicators now workĬolor Selection Dialog for text ( P-) (any color chosen get brought down to Wordstar s 16 color palette) What is not tested is pretty much all functionality when not displaying dot commands. This is the first release I ve made that I have not tested extensively (through daily use). (wxWidgets doesn't let you change paper type on the fly) RTF support for many dot commands is not implemented (see implemented.xlsx) poo to set RTF gutter (RTF only allows one setting))Ĭorrected RTF export unicode character supportįixed wrong display of pagebreak at top of windowįixed layout speed, especially under LinuxĬorrected Linux layout to better match Word and LibreOffice
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In Search Of The First Comment 104 Comments Posted in Retrocomputing Tagged apple, CP/M, mac, objective c, OsX, retrocomputing, turbo pascal, wordstar, zork Post navigation We’ve had CP/M running on everything from an ESP32 to a real Z-80. If you wanted to learn today, there are plenty of easy-to-read examples in C, C++, or Objective C. We remember puzzling out the BDOS and BIOS interfaces in the 1980s and it required reading assembly language.
The CPU is a little better at nearly 1500 lines of code. If you ever built a 64K memory board for a computer of this era, it is mildly unsettling to see the whole thing reduced to about 50 lines of code. Once you have that, it is relatively easy to boot CP/M on the virtual Z80 computer. There’s also a directory with the CP/M BDOS interface. There are sections for the BIOS, the processor, and RAM memory. The project is logically laid out if you’d like to read the code or attempt changes. There are plenty of Z80 emulators that can run CP/M, but what we found most interesting about this one is that it is written in Objective C, a language with a deep history in the Mac and NeXT worlds. Of course you might be happier running Zork or Turbo Pascal, and you can do that, too. In case you wanted to run WordStar on your Mac, offers CP/M for OS/X, and it looks like it would be a lot of fun.