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Back in the day, I wrote a vt100/220 emulator in assembler for the C64. It ran in graphics mode using my own bitmapped font to give an 80 column display. Sadly,

• SwellJoe 11y ago
  Yeah, I had an 80 column terminal for my C64 or dialing into PC BBSes, but it was really difficult to read. It also used a custom font on a bitmap display such to cram 80 characters on the screen. I don't remember what it was called, but probably was downloaded from a random BBS. I pretty much never used it, because of the ugliness of it. But, the 128 80 column mode was entirely usable (it was at 640x200 or 640x400 interlaced, so it was quite legible, and comparable to PC displays of the time). So, I was able to use PC BBSes comfortably from the 128, but not from the 64. I'd be happier, if more software took advantage of the 128. There aren't even any music trackers for the 128, that I can find.