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I got confused because ANSI is not the same as ASCII. These are color and have more graphical symbols. Interesting but different. Hint: Click on the [?] next

I got confused because ANSI is not the same as ASCII. These are color and have more graphical symbols. Interesting but different. Hint: Click on the [?] next to each file, the ans file doesn't render happy in the browser.

orionblastar 12y ago
In DOS you needed to load ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file in order to see ANSI terminal codes. Later on PC Magazine or some other company made ANSI.COM that you could load at any time as a Terminate and Stay Resident program to see ANSI codes. It basically uses the CGA 80x25 text 16 color screen on PC and PC clones. I could be wrong, but I think the terminal codes were based on VT-100 or something with the IBM font added. When I had an Amiga 1000 I had to set my terminal to VT-100 and load a font that had the IBM PC character set in it, because the Amiga fonts had different character sets in them that didn't look right. Modern terminal programs for BBSes are like this one: http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ It fully support BBS ANSI codes. It also lets you connect to Internet based Telnet BBS systems.
- micro-ram 12y ago
  DesqView had DVANSI.COM IIRC
userbinator 12y ago
These have ANSI terminal escape sequences in them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
jquast 12y ago
I wrote a document trying to clarify the meaning of 'ANSI', which is a misnomer of sorts, https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integration/docs/pains.rst#the-misnomer-of-ansi https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integrati...
- aries1980 12y ago
  >This is purely an American misnomer, because early IBM PC and clones in the European nations did not ship with the IBM CP437 code page by default. A Hungarian ANSI guy here. In Central/Eastern Europe we used the IBM CP852 which only tweaked some of the already accented characters to the language correct one. So we still had ANSI scene with the 8bit block characters.

orionblastar 12y ago

In DOS you needed to load ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file in order to see ANSI terminal codes. Later on PC Magazine or some other company made ANSI.COM that you could load at any time as a Terminate and Stay Resident program to see ANSI codes. It basically uses the CGA 80x25 text 16 color screen on PC and PC clones. I could be wrong, but I think the terminal codes were based on VT-100 or something with the IBM font added. When I had an Amiga 1000 I had to set my terminal to VT-100 and load a font that had the IBM PC character set in it, because the Amiga fonts had different character sets in them that didn't look right. Modern terminal programs for BBSes are like this one: http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ It fully support BBS ANSI codes. It also lets you connect to Internet based Telnet BBS systems.

micro-ram 12y ago
DesqView had DVANSI.COM IIRC

userbinator 12y ago

These have ANSI terminal escape sequences in them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

jquast 12y ago

I wrote a document trying to clarify the meaning of 'ANSI', which is a misnomer of sorts, https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integration/docs/pains.rst#the-misnomer-of-ansi https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integrati...

aries1980 12y ago
>This is purely an American misnomer, because early IBM PC and clones in the European nations did not ship with the IBM CP437 code page by default. A Hungarian ANSI guy here. In Central/Eastern Europe we used the IBM CP852 which only tweaked some of the already accented characters to the language correct one. So we still had ANSI scene with the 8bit block characters.