20 Sep
2010
20 Sep
'10
9:52 a.m.
On 9/17/10, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
So, in the end, implementing the ANSI color codes was
the only
reasonable way to get colored output on the VT525, and it is nice to
have... I like playing Beyond Zork with color and primitive graphics on
my PDP11... :-)
Ooh! Now you have my attention. Long ago, I grabbed the ITF
Z-machine source code and got it working under VMS 4.x (it was trivial
once I had a working curses library), so I was able to run an number
of v3 games on our 11/750, but now that there are many more Z-machine
choices, I haven't gone back to fiddle with newer game file types.
I haven't seen a VT525 in the wild, but now I know what to do to show
it off if I do get one (but now I'm also wondering what it would take
to get what you have working on a Tektronix 4105 since I have a couple
of those).
-ethan