vt100 terminfo with padding for an actual vt100?

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Sep 6 19:21:20 CDT 2016


> Interesting. I've been trying to get a WiFi device for the Commodore
> 8-bits working consistently in 9600 bps mode, and have just been
> assuming the garbage characters I get when I receive a screenful of text
> all at once were due to buffer overruns. The garbage characters there
> look like actual garbage, not like partial CSIs like [3;1m or whatever.

Unless you're using an ACIA cartridge, 9600bps on the C128 is problematic,
and impossible on the C64.

If you *are* using an ACIA cartridge, then 9600bps is well within spec and
should "just work." I'd look at your driver instead. A buffer overrun 
should just drop characters, not munge them.

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