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Cool. Do you have more literature on the SSU? Do you know if the roms tolerate more than two sessions being available (or can be trivially patched to support m
by geocar 11mo ago
Cool.
Do you have more literature on the SSU? Do you know if the roms tolerate more than two sessions being available (or can be trivially patched to support more?)
- mmastrac 11mo agoThe SSU feature is woefully underdocumented and the patent gives you _some_ information, but it's missing all of the details. I hope to break this part out into a project of its own. I am 100% certain a VT420 will never be able to support more than two sessions, as the ROM explicitly has a ton of checks that look like "if session1 { ... } else { ... }". Unfortunately your best bet here would be putting a more advanced terminal multiplexer behind your VT420 and then making the F4 key a full passthrough (disabling the native session switcher).
- geocar 11mo agoCheers. I haven't had a VT420 in a few decades, but I remember wondering about its built-in multisession support (I never saw it in action)
- mmastrac 11mo agoThe emulator supports it, though there's a few bugs in it so you can try it out. The animated GIF in the README demonstrates it too :) I would call the splitscreen multisession... gimmicky at best? The two-session version is alright, but juggling windows is not great in general.