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If whoever wrote this wants to add an authentic (and somewhat period correct) terminal front-end, I wrote a VT420 hardware emulator that works in the browser an
by mmastrac 10mo ago
If whoever wrote this wants to add an authentic (and somewhat period correct) terminal front-end, I wrote a VT420 hardware emulator that works in the browser and we can wire them together!
https://mmastrac.github.io/blaze/ https://mmastrac.github.io/blaze/
(the API is undocumented but stupidly simple: an async js_read() function and a sync js_write() function)
- dboreham 10mo agoYou'll want VT-52 for this era.
- fl7305 10mo agoMore like the VT-05. The VT-52 came a few years later. But yeah, the VT-420 is way later. Fun fact: The VT-52 didn't have a loudspeaker for the bell sound. Instead, it had a electromechanical relay which was set up to self-oscillate. "Typing a character produced a noise by activating a relay. The relay was also used as a buzzer to sound the bell character, producing a sound that "has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears."
- Telemakhos 10mo agoYouTube has the sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAafRXddfxc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAafRXddfxc
- fl7305 10mo agoThanks, I remember it being much louder when I used it in the 80's. Made me jump out of the chair the first time I heard it.
- larsbrinkhoff 10mo agoI wrote a VT52 hardware simulation: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/terminal-simulator https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/terminal-simulator