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by dingosity 1166 days ago
Well... terminal emulators. Bonus points to everyone who has an actual VT240 on their physical desktop.
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LoganDark 1166 days ago
> Bonus points to everyone who has an actual VT240 on their physical desktop.

Bonus points to anyone who can find one and get it to work. I want one, but it's a huge investment (both in price and effort)

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dingosity 1158 days ago
Yikes. Yeah. Went on ebay thinking they couldn't possibly be THAT expensive. I was wrong. I wonder if there's a market for a $200 VT420 clone built with a FPGA that has a USB connection for a keyboard and a HDMI connector for a monitor?
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chasil 1166 days ago
The MAME emulator will actually run a VT260 rom, allowing the emulated serial port to be output to a socket.
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Datagenerator 1165 days ago
Are guides available on how to setup and use?

Edit: Found this https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME...

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chasil 1165 days ago
Here are a bunch of URLs that I collected for the VT240.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/terminal-simulator/issues/1

https://www.mail-archive.com/simh@trailing-edge.com/msg09086...

https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Num...

https://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/qgzCvrl8/dec-vt-emula...

The command that I ended up using was:

  mame -rp . vt240 -window -nothrottle -host null_modem -bitb socket.foo.com:23
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G3rn0ti 1165 days ago
MAME is just crazy. I only learned recently it contains the best Sega Genesis emulator and now you tell me it does terminal emulation, too.
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