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Re: Code Blue, Was: Re: Rainbow hard drives

#450
From: David Lesher
Date: Sat, 26 May 1990 20:25
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Code Blue is an emulator. It helps RB's run non-graphic PeeCee software
by trapping some of the interrupts that mean different thing to a
Rainbow, and sending them where they belong. It also helped on the
video problem by trapping screen write calls, and regurgating them into
Rainbow video section, which, I seem to recall, is run by the Z-80. At
the same time, it gives you the option of seeing either the first or
last 24 lines. You can 'jump' via a keystroke at any time.

It grabs the keyboard, and gives you <ALT> keys with the 'compose
character' key. The remaining function keys {ie F11....} go
nowhere.

It's not perfect. Even with the Suitable Solution improvements, it, for
example, cannot run the PTR Program from WordPerfect 5.  It, can
however, run WordPerfect and even the Bitstream fonts generator, no
small feats. {Don't bother doing the latter - making and downloading
fonts is SO slow, you won't want to.}

Serial ports should work just fine. It includes an LPT driver to
convince programs that think there is a parallel port to really
talk to the serial printer one.

-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu 
& no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM
Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335
is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335
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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Code Blue, Was: Re: Rainbow hard drives
Keywords: Code Blu PC Compatibility, where to get
Message-ID: <1990May26.202559.13907@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 20:25:59 GMT
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