How to write Ascii characters in DosBox running TurboC? \ VOGONS

How to write Ascii characters in DosBox running TurboC?

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First post, by nxgtrturbo

Posted on 2010-02-10, 17:11

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Hello everybody, hope you can help me in this one, I am working on a project with old IDE TurboC but I need to input special ascii characters like ALT+219 to get a █ for example.

I have not found yet a way to input this characters, it just don’t work.
(To programmers, putchar(ascii value) is not an option)

Thanks in advance.

Environment:
Kubuntu 9.10
Laptop with English keyboard and layout.

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-02-10, 17:35

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alt-219 should work in dosbox. be sure to use the numeric keyboard when inputting the numbers

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Reply 2 of 6, by nxgtrturbo

Posted on 2010-02-10, 17:41

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Hi, thanks for reply, but… there’s only one way to input number in most laptops, mine is the case, since it does not have a separated numeric pad.

Reply 3 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-02-10, 17:43

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The laptops, I used did have a Fn key combination to use some of the right keys as numpad. Might not work on linux AND is probably annoying to work with 🙁

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Reply 4 of 6, by taiken7

Posted on 2010-02-10, 18:17

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You could also access the characters using
chr(index); Returns a char/string(1)
eg,

1printf( chr(219)+chr(219)+"  Hello "+chr(219)+chr(219));

etc

Reply 5 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-02-10, 18:27

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1\xXX

where XX is the heximal presentation should work as well.

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Reply 6 of 6, by nxgtrturbo

Posted on 2010-02-10, 22:43

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Thanks everyone for the help, now I am able to continue the project without a VirtualMachine.

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