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by rbanffy 2 days ago
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.

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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.

* https://thehighnibble.com/vt132/

* https://thehighnibble.com/vt132/operation/vt100/programmer/

Specially if they used less memory constrained device like a RPi Zero instead of an esp32 and HDMI instead of VGA.