On Sat, Jan 7, 2023, 1:04 AM Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Grant Taylor wrote: > > I'm not that surprised that soft fonts are (re)using Sixel. > > Maybe the other way around. I don't really know what the timeline was, > but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first, with the VT220. The > VT240 had sixel graphics, right? But I'm guessing it came later. As > would the VT340. > Vt240 had graphics. But the LA50 also had sixel graphics, as did the vt125. Regis graphics was built on sixels :) Warner > I suspect that means that XTerm could support soft fonts if some minor > > changes were made to re-use it's existing Sixel support. > > Probably. I had the good fortune to meet the person who first added > sixel graphics to XTerm, and he mentioned it is on his to-do list. > > It would also be interesting to make a faithful VT220 emulator that runs > the original ROMs. > > >> But apparently you saw that already! > > Nope. But I have now. :-) > > Oh, isn't this you? > https://twitter.com/DrScriptt/status/1187958760901414913 >
