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Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

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Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#11

Post by chasil »

MAME will actually emulate a VT240.

We spend a bundle, both on Charon VAX emulation and Bluezone Rocket terminal emulation. We used to run the Reflections terminal emulator, but that is up to $500/seat.

I was actually looking for a functional UTS-20 emulator for our OS2200, but that is another story.

MAME will tie the rs232 to an outgoing socket, and I ran it over stunnel to login to my VAX VMS.

It was a really slow Friday.

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#12

Post by naikrovek »

chasil wrote: post #11

MAME will actually emulate a VT240. We spend a bundle, both on Charon VAX emulation and Bluezone Rocket terminal emulation. We used to run the Reflections terminal emulator, but that is up to $500/seat. I was actually looking for a functional UTS-20 emulator for our OS2200, but that is another story. MAME will tie the rs232 to an outgoing socket, and I ran it over stunnel to login to my VAX VMS. It was a really slow…

how well did it work?

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#14

Post by masswerk »

rodgerd wrote: post #10
dmd wrote: post #6

A lot more information here, including how the phosphor decay is part of the font and you won't get the right appearance if you don't take it into account: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

I do wonder if a sufficiently clever person could coerce OpenType's Variable Font extension to simulate phosphor behaviour.

There was a time when blurred fonts were some of a (small) hype. The tricky part is that phosphor response isn't linear, but sinusoidal, and that you had to scale this with font size… (You could make this an axis with variable fonts, though.)

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#16

Post by suprjami »

bitwize wrote: post #5

I used to love this font but the fake scanline effect was eyehurty after a while. DEC Terminal Modern is the same font with a nice vector look that won't interfere with the scanlines when you use it in cool-retro-term.

https://www.dafont.com/dec-terminal-modern.font

Does this have any particular size it's supposed to be used at?

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#17

Post by bitwize »

suprjami wrote: post #16
bitwize wrote: post #5

I used to love this font but the fake scanline effect was eyehurty after a while. DEC Terminal Modern is the same font with a nice vector look that won't interfere with the scanlines when you use it in cool-retro-term.

https://www.dafont.com/dec-terminal-modern.font Does this have any particular size it's supposed to be used at?

Nah, it's good for all sizes. The glyphs have been completely vectorized.

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#18

Post by mattigames »

dmd wrote: post #6

A lot more information here, including how the phosphor decay is part of the font and you won't get the right appearance if you don't take it into account: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

With CSS (text-shadow to be exact) you can get pretty close, here is my shot at it: https://codepen.io/ivanca/pen/oNPZMLx

Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)

#19

Post by bartvk »

bitwize wrote: post #17
suprjami wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.dafont.com/dec-terminal-modern.font Does this have any particular size it's supposed to be used at?

Nah, it's good for all sizes. The glyphs have been completely vectorized.

Doesn't work in Terminal on macOS. It only displays bordered-questionmarks instead of glyphs. On the webpage, it does look like a nice font, though.
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