Well, the assembly language program can now take an RLE encoded string and draw the whole screen. Which is further than before, when it was basically a proof of concept. This still doesn't yet do the extra thing I want it to do - handle return chars and quotes, by borrowing run lengths of 255 & 254 - to signal that.

Also I thought that I was going to be dealing with the internal representations of a character - but I'm not. Plain ATASCII is all I am dealing with - oh well, that makes it simpler. Someday when I read through on that subject again, I'll figure out what ppl were talking about, but my code is working, using ATASCII.

So, I'll finally be off this distraction by the end of the month. Obviously that means the first iteration of the actual program I was really trying to write is delayed until October - but, it's not really that far delayed, that part of the code isn't that complicated.

I also got in my WIFIMOD II, as well as a P: R: Connection, and have been looking at hooking up my Atari to the internet using this external wifi adapter. So frustrating dealing with chinese instructions, the machine obviously can communicate with the WIFIMOD II, because I can send the reset codes, and it will reset the device. But the device choose to never send anything across the serial port - nothing. But the device IS WORKING - it's just going to be the usual pain in the rear....I've got an idea, the reason it never sends anything back, is the servers I'm connecting with communicate on port 80 - and the device manufacturers assumed you'd be talking with another WIFIMOD only on port 55555, and they offer the very unhelpful advice "you don't need to modify this section" - but I almost guarantee you do need to modify that section of the config - so --definitely not out of ideas for things to try.

Later