Classic, Woodstock and Spice Emulators

[Dieter]

(09-19-2016 10:41 PM)PANAMATIK Wrote:  But the now supplied .png file is prepared for TRANSPARENT mode

Yes, that's fine. However, in transparent mode clicking on "OFF" exits the emulator – and all data is lost as, unlike the real thing, the emulator does not save anything on exit. What about a state file that preserves everything a real 19C would also keep when turned off?

(09-19-2016 10:41 PM)PANAMATIK Wrote:  I will try to improve the printer font handling.

Here is a picture that shows a real 19C and the emulator side by side. It's based on a screenshot from Jürgen Keller's website. Click to view the full sized picture.

   

You can see that the program listing on the real device is right justified while the emulator starts all lines directly at the left border. For this example Courier New 12pt was used. The line spacing is fine, but the printout would improve if everything was moved by, say, three characters to the right.
BTW, what's the max. number of characters the 19C prints on one line? 17? Up to 20?

Finally let me add two suggestions regarding the printer function.

First I think that adding a "clear printout" button would be nice. Something that works like advancing and tearing off the paper on a real 19C so that you get a blank print area on the emulator. Could be done by double-clicking on the paper.

And then there is a nice feature that I really like on Free42: printed output can be written to a text file. Everyting that goes to the printer is saved (appended to) a file specified by the user. This way you get all printed results even if the output is longer than the 10 or 12 lines that are visible on the emulator. Would you consider this a useful extension?

Dieter