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The application layer of the link-port demo, and it ties the whole system
together: the LCD terminal displays, the on-screen keyboard types, and the
link port carries a live chat.
Kernel: sys_srecv_nb (non-blocking link receive; A=byte, CF=none) and
sys_pollin (poll the OSK for a typed char without blocking) - syscalls
31/32. Both are what a poll loop needs to receive and type at once.
Userland: c/chat.c runs a poll loop - it feeds non-blocking bytes through a
SLIP receive state machine and prints whole incoming frames as messages,
while pollin() drives the on-screen keyboard; SELECT shows the keys, type a
line, START sends it as a frame. libc srecv_nb()/pollin().
Host: tools/gateway.py --mode chat is a simple bot peer (echoes each GB
message and injects a few async ones); --keys can drive the OSK for tests.
Verified: the gateway pushes 'welcome', '<alice> hey gameboy!', '<bob> nice
link cable' unprompted and the GB displays all three (async receive); typing
'hi' on the OSK echoes it and emits the SLIP frame \xC0hi\xC0 (send). A Game
Boy in the chat, keyboard on screen, over the link cable.
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Grow the link-port demo from echo to actual network access. The Game Boy
still only does SLIP framing + display; the host gateway does DNS/TCP/HTTP.
- c/netlib.h: SLIP framing factored out (header-only, per-program copy).
necho.c now uses it too.
- c/wget.c: `wget URL` frames the URL, then prints the reply body. The
gateway streams the body back as typed frames: 'D'<chunk> ... 'E'.
- tools/gateway.py: add --mode http (urlopen the frame as a URL, cap the
body, chunk it) alongside --mode echo; --cmd runs any gbos command.
Verified: `wget example.com` streams back the full Example Domain HTML onto
the terminal; `wget sl0p.foo` fetches the real page. A Game Boy on the web,
over the link cable.
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First step of link-port networking. The LCD terminal + OSK freed the serial
port from console duty, so it can be the network link.
Kernel (src/net.asm): raw link-port serial that bypasses the console/
terminal - sys_ssend (transmit, GB drives the clock) and sys_srecv (receive,
GB slave, blocks by yielding). Syscalls 29/30.
Userland: libc ssend()/srecv(); c/necho.c does SLIP (RFC 1055) framing over
them - send a packet, receive the reply, print it.
Host: tools/gateway.py wraps the emulator, owns its link serial, speaks SLIP,
and (for now) echoes every frame back - the "link cable adapter". Console
(ASCII) bytes on the same channel are printed for visibility.
Verified: `necho` sends a SLIP frame, the gateway decodes+echoes it, and gbos
prints the reply - a real framed round-trip over the Game Boy link port.
Next: swap the echo for actual network ops (DNS/HTTP or IRC/chat).
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Replace the small-caps placeholder font with a real baseline-aligned
4x8 set covering all 96 printable ASCII: distinct lowercase with true
ascenders (b d f h k l t) and descenders (g j p q y), digits, and
punctuation. Metrics: caps/ascenders rows 1-5, x-height rows 2-5,
baseline row 5, descenders into rows 6-7. Glyphs are ~3px wide in the
4px cell -- cramped but legible; the tile mechanism itself imposes no
character-set limit.
genfont.py now takes per-glyph (top, rows) so glyphs sit on the baseline.
Demo strings in term_test updated to show mixed case + punctuation.
Verified by screenshot: descenders visibly drop below the baseline.
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Add a background-tile text terminal that packs TWO 4px-wide characters
into each 8x8 tile, giving a 40x18 grid instead of the 20x18 you'd get
from an 8x8 font. The tilemap is static (one dedicated VRAM tile per
screen position); we rebuild a tile's 16 bytes from two glyphs whenever
a character changes. 360 tiles exceed the 256 a single tilemap can
address, so positions 256-359 live in VRAM bank 1 via the CGB tilemap
attribute bank-bit -- hence CGB-only.
- Switch the ROM to CGB (rgbfix -C). Safe for the FS: every process has
PROC_WRAMB=1, so SVBK stays on bank 1 and the WRAMX FS caches don't move.
- CGB BG palette 0 = white bg / black text via BCPS/BCPD.
- src/term.asm: term_init (palette + static tilemap + clear buffer),
build_tile (combine two 4px glyphs -> one 8x8 tile, correct VRAM bank),
term_redraw (rebuild all tiles), term_puts, term_show, term_test.
- src/font.asm: 96-glyph 3x5-in-4x8 font, generated by tools/genfont.py.
- 40x18 text buffer at $D600 (WRAMX, above the FS caches).
- tools/ppmview.py: render a --shot PPM as ASCII so the LCD is inspectable
from the shell during development.
Verified via emulator screenshot: "GBOS TERMINAL", the alphabet, and a
bank-1 row all render legibly at 40 columns. Serial shell + filesystem
still work unchanged.
Note: a full term_redraw builds 360 tiles and takes ~8 frames; fine for
incremental single-char updates, but scrolling needs a smarter path
(next milestone). Input (no keyboard) is also still TODO.
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