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Darn, I just got rid of a VT420 that I had kept for years. That would have been a really cool (geeky) project. :(
Or you could just run cool-retro-term[1] for the similar visual effect. [1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Those examples all seem to have excessive bleed from the bright areas. If those were physical devices, I'd be turning down the brightness control immediately. Anybody come up with a version for iOS or Android yet? Seeing it on a tablet would be a real juxtaposition.
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I'd really love to have one or five of those for maintenance work. There's a lot of devices that I don't really need to have a keyboard and video connected to for 99.99% of their life time, but I still need an LC display and KVM switch connected to for about 10 minutes per decade. It's such a waste.
The Kobo line seem nicely hackable. They have a horrible bit of forcing the user to connect an account online during first power-up. This can be avoided with a bit of SQL. This site talks about "activating" without the desktop app (and other bits of tinkering): http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/ >Connect the Kobo via USB, and mount its onboard storage on your desktop machine. > Ensure you have an SQL…
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Fascinating! I'm reading the source code of z80e (tui.c). Your idea of using unicode to display pixels is very interesting. I imagine a fallback mode for libsixel for terminals not sixel-compatible (or the opposite). I try ton compile but it fails (first because scas was missing and now I have an "a2x: not found" in scas). I appreciate a lot the "multitarget rendering" (emscripten, tui, sdl...).
a2x should be provided by the asciidoc package on your distribution. It's used to compile man pages. I'd merge a pull request adding libsexl support!
Yes, thank you (I'm on Debian). I know a bit more after reading the wiki. I will follow the instructions for the sdk.
> I'd merge a pull request adding libsexl support!
Cool! I'm discovering the new world of custom tools for TI (KnightOS, Axe Parser, OS2...).
I will look at the SDL UI to see what I can do.
BTW z80 is good target for superoptimization and I'm very impressed by your toolchain and its history :)
Honestly, were it not for a web browser I really wouldn't need a GUI at all: everything else I do is a terminal and emacs (sure, both are running in X, but I don't really use their GUI features for much). I remember when I was a kid with access to a local university's systems, and the only way to do anything was with dumb terminals. I telnetted to MUDs, FTPed software, read Usenet — in a lot of ways those dumb termin…
No one would let us near the hyper-expensive VAX with huge (21"?) vector monitor and light pen terminals.
We'd have tried to make asteroids of course :)
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I'd forgotten all about the ESP8266 but this project is about 95% of what I'm aiming for. The rest should be relatively trivial programming work, so thanks! Can't speak for the other guy (who wants a portable monitor+keyboard system), but what I'm mostly looking for is a terminal that I could carry around/outside the house (i.e. potentially high-glare conditions) and program while connected to wifi, while not recharg…
I regularly use Vim over high latency connections (50ms+) for extended periods, and it's really not that big a deal.
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Funny you bring that up, I was just reading about this: When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers. The result was Display PostScript, or DPS. DPS added basic functionality to improve performance by changing many string lookups into 32 bit integers, adding support for direct output with every command, and adding functio…
I remember some fuss being made about this in the early days of OS X, about "looking glass" (the gui system) using display postscript. Anybody know anything about that? If it's still a part of OS X or if it fell by the way side?
I have a VT220, and it's pretty cool apart from the high pitched whining sound it makes. I think I might have to recap it at some point
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I regularly use Vim over high latency connections (50ms+) for extended periods, and it's really not that big a deal.
Wait, over 50ms is high latency now? That's less than transatlantic traffic delays, for example. I think you have to be in the actually noticeable (say 250ms plus) range to count as high.
Quasi-related: I've always wanted an ultra-low-power dumb terminal using eInk paper displays - something you could hit days of runtime with using a small battery pack. eInk uses no power when they're not updating - so idling or long-running operations would hardly use any power. So far the easiest approach I've found is using a hacked Kindle with an attached keyboard. You can run a terminal client on it and ssh into…
There are also some e-ink Android tablets, but I forgot if I found any that seemed good.
I also have a strong desire to ssh by e-ink, latency be damned.