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New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:46 am
by rje
Blinkenlights
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A simple file that graphically shows the values of several registers in the X16 which change regularly -- for example, the top of the accumulator stack, and some of the I/O registers.
It's an attempt to replicate the "blinking lights" of systems that used to use big ol' LEDs to represent register contents, alarm bars, and whatnot.
The C source is here:
https://github.com/bobbyjim/x16-blinkenlights
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08/16/21
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New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:49 am
by rje
The display looks kind of Tetris-y right now. I'd like it to look less like Tetris, and more like a bank of LEDs.
Any ideas?
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:32 am
by Cyber
Can you show example of LED bank you are talking about?
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:58 am
by TomXP411
2 hours ago, Cyber said:
Can you show example of LED bank you are talking about?
I imagine this...
or this
or this
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:07 am
by TomXP411
3 hours ago, rje said:
The display looks kind of Tetris-y right now. I'd like it to look less like Tetris, and more like a bank of LEDs.
Any ideas?
Try the circle character (shift Q), and use bright/dark versions of colors. (You'll probably have to modify the palette a bit.)
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:00 pm
by rje
Yep, I was seeing the PDP-8 in my head. I'll try circles.
I'm also wondering if there's additional semi-useless information that might be nice to see on this kind of eye-candy display.
Maybe I can also draw some nice PETSCII beveled lines to break up the space into logical areas. Yeah, I'll try that too.
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:02 pm
by rje
Here's a concept for the second iteration. I'll try other colors as well, but red circles look very LED like, and the dark gray emulates "off" nicely.
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:40 pm
by rje
Looking for more useless info to display. Currently showing:
localtime
VIA #1 registers ($9f66 and $9f67 don't have any activity)
stack ($01d6 thru $01e5).
I suppose I could grab the registers.
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:16 pm
by rje
OK, merged the changes, and updated the Downloads entry.
New demo uploaded: Blinkenlights
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:49 pm
by rje
I added in a keyboard scan.
I also included the i/o status byte, because I had room for it.
