Emulation does not support 'SASIX' boot menu

[snhirsch]

SASIX is used on a real or emulated hard drive (e.g. Norberto Collado's Z67-IDE+) to choose from multiple boot partitions. There's apparently some type of software handshake that's supposed to occur and does not. Instead of a menu, I see a single lowercase 'c' character and everything hangs. This is puzzling, since as far as I know SASIX uses only direct cursor positioning and inverse text - both of which do seem to be supported by h19term.py. I'm also seeing random crashes from h19term which come from within one of the libraries. Will try to quantify that further.

[horga83]

Ok well thats funny, if you look at the screenshots on my web site you can see Sasix running. http://h8.cowlug.org/h19term.php I thought you were talking about something else. I don't recall a problem running it, which terminal are you running or are you on the Linux console? Unfortunately my H8 is down at the moment and I can't test it. George

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On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 14:01 -0800, snhirsch wrote: SASIX is used on a real or emulated hard drive (e.g. Norberto Collado's Z67-IDE+) to choose from multiple boot partitions. There's apparently some type of software handshake that's supposed to occur and does not. Instead of a menu, I see a single lowercase 'c' character and everything hangs. This is puzzling, since as far as I know SASIX uses only direct cursor positioning and inverse text - both of which do seem to be supported by h19term.py. I'm also seeing random crashes from h19term which come from within one of the libraries. Will try to quantify that further. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[snhirsch]

I'll accept that it's supposed to work, but it simply is not cooperating. I'm running h19term under Python 2.7 in Xubuntu console emulation. It's possible that's to blame - never even thought about it. I'll try vanilla xterm and let you know.

[snhirsch]

Hi, George. I tried the xfce console, vanilla xterm and the Linux system console. Same misbehavior in all three cases. It's not hardware or comm wiring. After ironing out my Java configuration, Douglas Miller's H19serial.jar emulator is working fine on the machine. I'll be glad to do what I can to get the information you'll need to fix this. Just let me know?