Date   : Wed, 13 Jan 1993 09:40:52 +1100 (EST)
From   : Andrew Leahy <A.Leahy@...>
Subject: Re: Real Time Clock (and other stuff)?

>   Is anyone interested in using their BBC as a graphics  
> terminal? I've been developing an objective C based graphics library  
> recently. It currently runs under X, but I've been keeping in mind  
> that it should be easily addapted to drive BBC VDU codes?

YUP!

Last year (sorry, the year b4 last !) I wrote a program to
"convert/filter/whatever-u-like" PPM files (Portable PixMap) into VDU codes.
I used it to display images (GIF/JPEG/etc.) on my Beeb at home while logged
into Uni. over the modem. And it displayed them in REAL colour too! (using
ppmquant to convert images to 3-bit colour in MODE2 or 2 bit colour in MODE1
- sounds sh*t - looked great - for the beeb anyhow :)

But, since we got a new terminal/modem server (Annex) running off the Unix box
(Ultrix)...I haven't been able to get it to work...arrgggghh!

>   Has anyone got any good mouse based software? I'd realy love  
> to get hold of something like AMX framemaker. Also does anyone have a  
> commercial (ie good quality) C compiler?

AMX Pagemaker...yup...not to bad...bit clumsy on the Beeb though, swapping discs
all the time. Works better with a RAM disc.
Don't BEEBUG sell a C compiler for the Beeb?
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