The VT-100 emulation seems very accurate, down to the pixel level.
I wonder if there is anyone doing VT-340 emulation like that - shouldn’t be impossible to transpile the ROMs to something modern (I guess this is what was done here) and fill in the hardware support gaps.
The terminal firmware is VT132 from TheHighNibble. It claims to support more than a VT100, but from looking at the reference doco that is not very much actually added (a handful of SCO and XTerm control sequences, and colour), and nowhere near what one had with the later DEC VT models.
This post spends a lot of attention on how to fasten, glue and adapt a specific existing keyboard and monitor from a 1U rack mounted console. If I would need a similar serial console, it will end up differently - just because my parts are different.
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[ 24.2 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadI wonder if there is anyone doing VT-340 emulation like that - shouldn’t be impossible to transpile the ROMs to something modern (I guess this is what was done here) and fill in the hardware support gaps.
* https://thehighnibble.com/vt132/
* https://thehighnibble.com/vt132/operation/vt100/programmer/
This post spends a lot of attention on how to fasten, glue and adapt a specific existing keyboard and monitor from a 1U rack mounted console. If I would need a similar serial console, it will end up differently - just because my parts are different.