Gregory Haerr
Gregory Haerr
> I wanting to write an ELKS device driver, similar to the "direct floppy driver" which will access the FDC chip directly from the ELKS kernel Do you just want...
It would also be a very good idea to find a data sheet on the KR chip! The ASM disassembly of your BIOS will be lots harder since it doesn't...
Hmm.... I'm not sure how I myself can help directly. We need to find someone near you that knows C well enough to code a driver from your specification of...
> I wonder what is the point of (re)writing the BIOS INT 13 as a direct driver in C? That is a good question. I haven't heard the answer yet...
I'm closing issue for now, can be re-opened should interest be found for writing driver for this machine.
Hello @Vutshi, > Where does ELKS take font? Could it be somehow missing? No. When the console is in text mode, the CGA/EGA/VGA uses the video memory contents as byte...
The mapping of byte codes for the keyboard as well as the console to the displayed glyph is referred to in total as a code page. The code pages for...
> It seems like elks/arch/i86/drivers/char/KeyMaps/keys-de.h is in Windows (or Western (ISO Latin 1)) encoding. Good catch, I hadn't noticed but now see an encoded ö in the file. That's certainly...
To be fair, I don't fully know what's best because I don't use DOS and have very infrequently use key combinations to come up with say, Western European character codes....
> kilo editor does not recognise umlaut: Try running `edit`, the MINIX editor instead. `kilo` was actually created by its author more as an exercise in how much could be...