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Of course, there is a more expensive, but usually reliable option . . . . Get it made in China :D If you are confident of the design, or at least, confident that minimal rework (using the Memotech patch wire technique :)) might be required, then you could just go for it? Advantages Not having to use...

Alan,

another query . . .

you can issue a shutdown command from the second (40 column) console, but "Halted" is only reported to the 80 column screen - is that by design or a "feature"?

regards
Dave

Alan,

on stty, based on the stty -a output, I'm guessing that <ctrl><q> and <ctrl><s> are meant to start/stop screen scrolling?

On the MTX implementation, they change the foreground colour attribute

regards
Dave

stty cols x works and the games are formatted correctly

the stty settings are transient though, I guess they need to be saved in some way

That doesn't work, "columns" is an illegal argument and setting the rows makes no difference to the output

Hi Alan, thanks for the info, no joy for me though. Even on the 40 column screen, I get carriage return between all words when running, say ADV01. I am running Bill's CFX-II emulation in his windows version of MEMU, so that might be the issue. I did try to download the vanilla MTX MEMU version from ...

Alan, the games files include some adventure (Advx) and Mystery (Mystxx) files, when I try them, there is a carriage return after every word printed to the screen. Is there something that I need to do to tell the programs about the (emulated) MTX screen? Also, Invaders reports that the TERM variable...

Ahh, thanks a lot Bill!

Now that you mention it, I came across that ages ago, then promptly forgot all about it.

(I was trying to run something on RPi and spent ages searching for that info - memory like a sieve !!!!)

regards
Dave

Ah, thanks a lot.

I need to do some more reading, I thought that I would be able to run the programs when logged into the /usr/games directory, but it seems that I ned to run them from my home directory with the path specified

regards
Dave