Il 20/04/2012 14:39, Armistead, Jason ha scritto:
Why not go all the way and record video of each type of old hardware
in action ? Obviously this makes no sense for blinkenlights, but it
might be fun to watch tape drives spinning back and forth (a series
of short sequences of video for each operation), or maybe someone
opening up a disk pack and installing platters. Of course, this
would require yet another interface from SIMH to the video playback
system.
I guess that you will surely enjoy this YT link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WaYYNUCWMY
But on your idea, honestly, seems to me that FMV video sequences are a
tad overboard; we're discussing simulator design, not console RPGs
design ! ;)
Now, if we could just "skin" our favorite terminal emulator with a
VT-220 case around the window area, we'd be all set in our virtual
retro-computing world !
I use Linux and of course the gnome-terminal is rigorously
green-on-black ;) and there's at least one proper font (that is, with
slashed zero and five-star * char...) albeit I *really* dislike its name
(Addolorata, whose in Italian means "doleful/sad (woman)" and I'm
Italian....)
In this context, I guess you need a good window dressing, and I'm sure
that there's more than enough tools in X environment for building
yourself the window decoration(s) you link ;)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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