Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

["Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:32:18 -0500, Alex Johnson wrote:
> More interesting to me, is any support for 80-col/VDC graphics?  A lot 
> of people find pure C64 GUI stuff drool-worthy, but beyond technical 
> astonishment it does nothing for me.  I've been in 80-col world for so 
> long unless the Contiki graphics system can be extended to VDC on C128 I 
> don't see ever trying it.

Yes, the Contiki graphics toolkit can quite easily be made to run with
80 columns on the C128. All it takes is an implementation of the cc65
conio library that runs in 80 column mode on the C128. I am not sure
whether such an implementation already exists or not, but a skilled
programmer probably could crank one out in a few hours, especially
since it only needs a single function.

If someone would like to, it is also possible to make a graphical CTK
theme for the C128 80 column mode, similar to those that exist for the
C64.

> Also I couldn't tell whether the 3 applications (http-in, http-out, and 
> telnet-out) are built into the OS or are actually applications you load 
> and run.  If more applications are written, is this like a regular OS 
> that they can be delivered individually or are they compiled into the 
> Contiki binary and released that way?  Some of the source code made me 
> think the latter, but I only skimmed it.

Currently, all programs are compiled into one binary, but there
already are support in the cc65 runtime for loadable program modules
that will be used to support loadable Contiki programs.

/adam
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