Guest machine side of mechanism that connects MSX-DOS to OpenMSX Tcl environment. This program uses a watchpoint to send responses back from Tcl to MSX-DOS.
The tcl.com MSX-DOS program requires the tcl_bridge.tcl script on OpenMSX side to execute Tcl commands received by the program. Execute:
tcl_bridge start
on the Tcl console to connect the sending data port on the MSX side (port#6). Now you can for instance call:
tcl puts "Hello world"
on MSX-DOS command line to print "Hello world" on openMSX Tcl console, but you can use it to call diskmanipulator and automate stuff using OpenMSX. The sky is the limit!
To close the bridge, just execute:
tcl_bridge stop
Just throw the directory inside a normal MSXgl install, specifically in the projects subdirectory, then call:
build.sh
If you want to compile a version of tcl.com that automatically transforms \n into \r\n to output the results to MSX-DOS screen, call:
build.sh define=TEXT_MODE
then it will automatically wrap any command with string map [\n \r\n] [<command>] and use Tcl itself to convert the response before sending it to the MSX.
The resulting binary will be inside the out subdirectory.
- The PR in OpenMSX of the Tcl script that completes the mechanism: