breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 975

Beth

the fairly similar box drawing characters that can be found in the DEC Special Graphics character set:

(See the last two columns in the table.)

The box drawing glyph repertoire in DEC Special Graphics is not nearly as comprehensive as the one on IBM Codepage 437, but it's still better than nothing.

(In that case, you would of course need to draw two different versions of the picture; one using the DEC Special Graphics set and another one using the Codepage 437 - or restrict yourself to only using the characters which can be found in both sets, letting Paul to convert from one set to the other programmatically when displaying the pictures on different systems. As always, there are several options. Note that even though DEC Special Graphics does not appear to have lower case letters, the "special graphics" glyphs can be shifted in and out at will, so you can have both lowercase letters and "special graphics" mixed on the same screen.)

Paul regularly hangs around in comp.sys.cbm. He has posted there since leaving his initial request here. I'm not sure why he hasn't commented anything in relation to your picture, but if you want to get in touch with him, that's one place where you can find him.

Not so much delays and frames, but you can move the cursor around with ANSI X3.64 codes and redraw different parts of the picture selectively, over and over again. The delay comes from the speed of the terminal and the speed of the connection to the host computer. For example, ANSI (X3.64) animations used to be very popular in some dial-up BBS systems, and the limiting factor which set the pace for the animations was the simply the actual line speed of your dial-up (modem) connection.

-- znark