[hatari-devel] Redirecting CON: to console

[Thomas Huth]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:08:02 +0300
Eero Tamminen <eerot at users.berlios.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 08 October 2010, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Miro Kropacek wrote:
> > > Ok, confirmed. Bconout(2, <ascii char>) is used. But if it's
> > > easily possible, please add also calls from GEMDOS family
> > > (http://toshyp.atari.org/en/005010.html) as a lot of asm coders
> > > uses these for string output, if not, I'm fine with the BIOS.
> >
> > Am I wrong or the GEMDOS internally calls Bconout() for any console
> > output ?

Not sure, but newer GEMDOS versions (and maybe FreeMiNT) might call the
handlers directly via the xconin, xconout, etc. system variables (see
http://toshyp.atari.org/de/003004.html#xconin for a list).
That's likely faster than a trap, but harder to intercept from an
emulator point of view.

 Thomas