Re: Carte Blanche Progress...

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> Bill Garber wrote:
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>>>>> Is anyone close to a completed Enhanced //e bitstream yet?
>>>>
>>>> Bill, you are referring to the character ROM issue (lack of 
>>>> proper inverse characters)?
>>>
>>> I am referring to MouseTEXT, if that is what 'you' mean.  8^)
>>>
>>> These are special characters that are indeed taking the place
>>> of part of the inverse character set.
>>>
>>> Two in particular are the 'Apple' symbols, one filled, one not.
>>> Or for lack of a better description, Closed-Apple, Open-Apple.
>>>
>>> So, are we on the same page here?  I don't think DHR is needed
>>> for the application we need to run, AppleWorks 5, is it?  Just
>>> the MouseTEXT characters.
>>>
>>> Bill
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>> Bill, I have mousetext working on a bitstream I've been working 
>> on for the IIGS. Its pretty easy to do (I'm using Xilinx ISE 
>> 11.1).  I made up a ".coe" file (its a text representation of a 
>> character ROM dump, comma separated with a small header).  If you 
>> want to use it let me know and I'll get it to you.  Incidentally, 
>> it is the "running man" mousetext not the normal ROM 01 GS 
>> mousetext since I couldn't find the right ROM dump.
>>
>> Or...
>> If you can wait (maybe quite a while) I'll try to remove the GS 
>> specifics from the bitstream and test it on a //e.  It still 
>> doesn't have double hires.  I'm working on that.
>
> Charlie, Hi, how are you?,
>
> Actually, the //e version with MouseTEXT is for a friend, and I 
> will
> more than likely desire both that, and the IIgs versions, however, 
> I'm
> using a ROM03 ATM, although I can get away with a ROM01 if I have 
> to
> in order to get the CB working in one. So, if you are anywhere 
> close
> to one or the other, I'd love to try them out.
>
> And.......thank you for doing this. It's nice to see people 
> actually
> working on the CB card. And yes, I would love a source file that 
> can
> be used in Xilinx ISE 11.1.
>
> Bill
>

I've set up a temporary site that you can see a couple of 
screenshots and download the modified bitstream and character ROM 
(.coe) file if the text looks good to you.  The bitstream file is 
for a ROM 01 IIgs but it may work on a ROM 03.  I don't have one to 
try it on so I don't want to say one way or the other.  It does have 
bugs but it should work with Appleworks.

http://www.noboot.com/Charlie/cbstuff.htm

Charlie