fire_lizard wrote on 2023-09-01, 08:27:

It is my first post here and I would like to know is there a way to emulate PC 3270 (aka IBM 5271)?

Welcome! I don't know anything about this, but I had a quick look at the MAME sources and there are some comments in src/mame/pc/ibmpc.cpp about this machine. I didn't get the impression it was supported but I suppose someone has looked at it a bit. Perhaps you could search or ask in https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?u … at&Number=76084

I believe Borland had a BGI driver for it in Turbo Pascal / Turbo C++ distributions.

I checked some manuals and was surprised to see that you're correct 😁 Turbo C 1.5 seems to be the first version with BGI from what I can see and it supports it, and that support seems to go right through to Borland C++ 4.5 (I didn't check version 5). Turbo Pascal 6.0 and 7.0 support it too.

The astronomy program StarView has PC 3270 support..
https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_STARVIEW

"[..] The following files are required for operation of StarView:
StarView.EXE executable program
StarView.IDs Bayer and/or Flamsteed IDs (text)
StarView.NAM Common names of certain stars (text)
StarView.SIN Trig Table (binary)
StarView.BIN Star Coordinates, Magnitude and Spectral Type
StarView.MAX Number of valid objects in StarView.BIN

In addition, the following graphics device drivers are supplied.
ATT.BGI AT&T 400 line graphics
CGA.BGI IBM Color Graphics Adapter
EGAVGA.BGI IBM EGA and VGA
HERC.BGI Hercules Graphics Adapter
PC3270.BGI IBM 3270/PC Driver [..]"

Hi again. It seems Dr. Halo II supports it, too.