27 Jul
2005
27 Jul
'05
10:29 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 01:06 -0500, Jim Battle wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
I'm glad someone's worrying about these things :) It's the one step that
emulators don't tend to do; they might emulate the machine really well,
but the display tends to be far too crisp to look like the original. Of
course it's probabaly only in recent years that modern hardware's been
fast enough to do this kind of thing!
The screenshot looks nice.
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:53 -0400, Jeff Davis
wrote:
Jules,
It is funny you should mention it. My recently released Wang 2200 emulator does
exactly that when you configure it to use the true bitmap font (vs. a system
native font) for rendering the display. I was just setting up Tera Term Pro on my windows
box (talk about overkill -
1.4Ghz and 768MB to run an ascii terminal!)
with that sort of speed you could probably emulate the CRT of the
original terminal itself, with all the gaps between lines and the light
fall-off around each pixel :-) The emulator also has realtime brightness and contrast
controls.
If you whack the brightness right up do you get to see retrace
lines? ;-)
cheers
Jules