Re: Carte Blanche Progress...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

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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)?
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>>>> I am referring to MouseTEXT, if that is what 'you' mean.  8^)
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>>>> These are special characters that are indeed taking the place
>>>> of part of the inverse character set.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Charlie, Hi, how are you?,
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>> 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.
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>> Bill
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> 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.
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> http://www.noboot.com/Charlie/cbstuff.htm
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> Charlie

That's great. I downloaded the files and captured the pictures, too.

I still need it for the //e though, for the friend.  8^)

Thank you much,

Bill