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CX16-PETSCII to Unicode - A filter program

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:46 pm
by mobluse
This filter program for Linux (including WSL) converts output of the Commander X16 Emulator R33+ to UTF-8 looking like PETSCII-UC, PETSCII-LC, or ISO8859-15 depending on what is used. It also converts the control codes to ANSI/VT100/xterm Escape sequences. It can print some debug information e.g. Ⓓ & Ⓐ for CR & LF, if you use option -d. It might also be used with the real Commander X16 if it has a serial port. Now it can be used to help write manuals.
PETSCII-UC.png
PETSCII-UC.png (497.1 KiB) Viewed 6042 times
PETSCII-LC.png
PETSCII-LC.png (498.04 KiB) Viewed 6042 times
ISO8859-15.png
ISO8859-15.png (500.19 KiB) Viewed 6042 times
In the future also the keypresses will be shown, and there is some buggy support for that already. It should also support the control code $80 i.e. verbatim mode. It does support $01 i.e. swap colors.

Instructions to download and build: https://github.com/mobluse/x16-petscii2utf8

Supports x16emu #R33 to #R42 and #R43.