Whipped up a 1053 Emulator log file display and print program

1053 EMULATOR OUTPUT ON PUTTY SCREEN VERSUS PUTTY LOG FILE

The Putty terminal program screen shows the text being output by the 1130 in black or red text, exactly as it would be seen on paper if an actual 1053 were used instead of the emulator. It also saves a log file but that does not support color, thus the ANSI color sequences are visible, disturbing the look of the output.

PROGRAM TO REPLAY THE LOG AND TO PRINT IT

I wrote a Python program to open the file (using a standard file dialog box starting at the Desktop). It then asks if the user wants to skip the green text. The startup of the emulator prints its menu in green. Too, the responses to any command typed on Putty to the emulator are displayed in green. Choosing Yes to this dialog box means all that is removed. This leaves only what the user would have seen on paper on the 1053. 

The program displays the log file in logical pages of 120 columns by 35 lines. Buttons are provided to move to the next page or to the previous page, as well as to print the current page or to quit. The program uses the Windows default printer, in landscape mode, to print in color. Thus any color capable printer will give a page by page copy of the session that is recorded in the Putty log.

File open dialog starting Desktop

Option to omit non-1130 output

Main window

When the Print Window button is pressed, it blinks red and green until the print has completed. The Quit button immediately ends the program. The other two buttons allow the user to move down page by page in the captured virtual paper form that was printed by the 1053. Each page is 35 lines deep by 120 columns across. The output is printed in color and in landscape mode, filling the printer page. 

I included this in the github project as well as it will be useful to anyone who builds and uses the emulator.