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The screen is just too low rez for an 80x24 terminal. You would need a 3x9 font, which I know from experience are close to unreadable. 320x240 displays more o
by jandrese 5y ago
The screen is just too low rez for an 80x24 terminal. You would need a 3x9 font, which I know from experience are close to unreadable. 320x240 displays more often ran at 40x24 which is too small for the modern world.
At the end of the article he talked about upgrading to a 640x480 display which would make the 80x24 terminal a real possibility. The surprisingly expensive 800x480 display would be even better, you would have the possibility of running a square 9x9 font, or more likely increasing the console resolution to 100x24.
- anthk 5y agoI ran 80x25 fine under the zipit z2 but had to place it near your face as if it was a Game Boy. But the Z2 Nethack build was patched to support a ~64x16 res (68x20 I think), so that worked well among some forth interpreter and well, gopher clients and IRC. The custom Slashem I built didn't have that patch, (and the patch was doable for sure), but I was lazy and just ran setfont. Z machine games were perfectly playable on 64x16.