19 Jun
2021
19 Jun
'21
10:59 a.m.
Grab the sources from https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ and build
it. Documentation is lacking,but you should be able to find out what
options are needed to enable ReGIS and Sixel graphics by running
"./configure --help"
Mike
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 1:47 PM Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at comcast.net> wrote:
On 6/18/2021 8:49 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
IIRC, Xterm has ReGIS and Sixel support in it's code these days, but most Linux
distro disable those features in their prepackaged builds for some reason.
Really? I'm interested. How do you build your own xterm?
Doug
Mike
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 3:50 PM Douglas Taylor via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Right, according to the few notes I've seen on the packages currently
for sale on ebay.
I hesitate to buy because I picked up a similar piece of software,
Smarterm 240, which seemed to do the desired emulation. It was old
software for DOS, but I have an old DOS machine I use for PUTR I thought
I could install it on and be up and running. It didn't turn out that
way because Smarterm wanted a particular video card and driver (which I
didn't have, of course). I didn't find that out until I got the package
open and tried installing it.
I don't know if the Reflection software has any restrictions like that.
The versions I see for sale are for Win3.1 and such, not exactly the
heyday of plug and play. I was hoping to get some guidance from someone
who has used the Reflection software on what the actual
hardware/software requirements are.
On a side note, emulating a Tektronix 4010 is apparently free and high
quality (see github). It is the DEC graphics terminals that no one has
produced an open source emulation software for, so that's why I am
asking this question.
Doug
On 6/18/2021 1:16 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
Reflection 4 should do that, right?
Bill
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:15 PM Douglas Taylor via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctech at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will
emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal?