Rather than the PIC based terminal, why don't we work up a terminal on a Pi Zero? There used to be a barebones terminal, but I think it needs to be updated to work on the latest version of the Pi.
Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:51 PM Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > I second that recommendation. I've got exactly that unit and it works > > perfectly with the M-100 running REXCPM, through an MVT100 and using VGA > > input. > > I'm curious, how does the font look on that monitor? I've tried a few > different LCDs and the one with the lowest resolution (1024x768) did the > poorest job of scaling and made the text simply awful. Other LCDs with > higher resolution were not as bad, but still not great (imho) compared with > a CRT. I'm curious whether it was purely a problem of my LCD not having > enough pixels to be able to do a better job of scaling, or if it just used > a really poor scaling algorithm because it's old. This LCD you're using > has the same horizontal resolution so I'm curious what it looks like. If > you could send a photo of some text on the screen it would be great! (If > you don't want to send to the list, just email me directly.) > > > > > > > > jim > >
