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Have a look to Gorilla-CPM, a Modula-2 game for CP/M using XTerm

XTerm for CP/M

Description

XTerm stands for "Cross-Terminal". It's a Modula-2 library for CP/M. It handles different kinds of terminals for easy cursor positioning, colors (when available), and screen handling. XTerm has been entirely written using a Commodore 128.

Supported terminal types

• VT52 (monochrome, no text effects)
• VT100 (monochrome)
• ANSI (colors)
• KayPro (monochrome)
• ADM-31 (monochrome)
• C128 (colors)
• Memotech (monochrome)
• Amstrad CPC 6128 / Zenith Z19 (monochrome)

Contents of package

• source - Source code in Turbo Modula-2 (Borland)
  • xterm.def - Definition: it contains symbols which can be IMPORTed.
  • xterm.mod - Implementation.
  • main.mod - Demo module that uses some procedure IMPORTed from xterm.
• binary - Compiled files for CP/M-80
  • xterm.sym - XTerm library itself (symbols).
  • xterm.mcd - XTerm library itself (object code).
  • main.mcd - Demo module - compiled
  • main.com - Demo module - linked executable

Demo screenshots

On an ANSI (VT100 with colors) terminal

On a KayPro compatible terminal (no colors)

On a Commodore 128 (ADM-31 with colours)