> On Feb 20, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After quite a bit of searching I finally found what I was looking for. > It is a VT52 terminal emulator written in C#, and compilable in Visual > Studio. I've been able to install the tools and been able to compile it.
Steve, this is exciting! For values of "exciting" that perhaps only certain of us are capable of truly appreciating. Bringing a full-blown modern-ish desktop computer into the display end of things really opens up the options a lot. Did you evaluate something like qodem [1] in the process, taking that old-school DOS-like approach? I'm curious if you poked through or evaluated text mode / curses type stuff or kept your searching mainly to the cool graphical CRT emulations a la cool-retro-term [2]. I could see getting a pretty gorgeous CRT-like DVI experience from that if the VT52 works. [1] qodem has a site at https://qodem.sourceforge.net/ that really shows off that nice DOS era terminal emulator feeling, and it claims specifically VT52 support separate from the VT100/102 emulation. [2] cool-retro-term at https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is so much fun to play with because of the CRT emulation and font stuff but I haven't poked at the VT52 end of things.
