Inferno64NG

Inferno64NG is a modernized hosted Inferno build based on the 64-bit Inferno port (original repository, MinGW branch). This fork is adapted for the MSYS2/MinGW environment and also supports modern Linux builds.

The current focus is the hosted emu runtime on amd64 for:

• Windows via MSYS2/MinGW;
• Linux on amd64.

Main changes and improvements

This build includes a number of system-level fixes and extensions compared to the original 64-bit port:

• Fixed several 64-bit arithmetic and runtime correctness issues.
• Improved hosted console support for both Windows/MSYS2 and Linux.
• Added ANSI/VT-style terminal control support for console applications.
• Added terminal capability reporting through /dev/consinfo, including geometry, color, truecolor, UTF-8 and backend/source information where available.
• Added enhanced console input devices:
  • /dev/ekeyboard for Unicode-aware keyboard input and special key handling;
  • /dev/emouse for console mouse input.
• Added unified console input dispatching for keyboard and mouse events, with platform-specific backends for Windows/MSYS2 and Linux.
• Improved raw console input lifecycle handling, including clean shutdown of blocked keyboard and mouse readers.
• Added support for building console TUI applications through the icurses framework.
• Added an extended shell, esh.
• Added various build, packaging and usability improvements, including optional binary size reduction/compression work.

icurses TUI framework

The icurses framework provides a higher-level API for building terminal UI applications on top of the enhanced console support. It includes:

• terminal capability detection via /dev/consinfo;
• keyboard input handling through /dev/ekeyboard;
• mouse input handling through /dev/emouse;
• ANSI/VT terminal rendering helpers;
• canvas-based drawing;
• windows, frames, shadows and labels;
• buttons, lists, forms, sliders, progress bars, spinners and task dialogs;
• focus handling, key bindings and command/message dispatch;
• example applications, including a Matrix-style terminal animation demo.

The framework is intended to make it practical to write real console applications for Inferno while keeping them portable between the supported Windows/MSYS2 and Linux hosted environments.

Install and run

Windows

Install MSYS2, run its shell and:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S upx
pacman -S git
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/sphynkx/inferno64ng
cd inferno64ng
export MKSH=`which bash`.exe
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/inferno64/MinGW/amd64/bin/
export ROOT=$(pwd)
./makemk.sh
mk mkdirs
mk install

Run:

emu.exe -r. -g1200x600

Linux

dnf install upx libX11-devel libXext-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/sphynkx/inferno64ng
cd inferno64ng

Modify mkconfig: set SYSHOST and SYSTARG to "Linux". Next:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/inferno64/Linux/amd64/bin/
export ROOT=$(pwd)
./makemk.sh
mk mkdirs
mk install

Run:

emu -r. -g1200x600

Bugs

Present.

TODO

Much of..