[HECnet] Downloadble fonts into an VT220?

Tim Sneddon tim at sneddon.id.au
Wed Sep 18 08:46:34 PDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

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> If you're looking for real world examples then Google is your friend.   There is a program floating around that converts gifs to sixel graphics that can be displayed using the soft character set on VT320 terminals.
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> Regards, Tim.

Yup, I converted some GIFs using NETPBM to Sixel graphics.

I wish there was a Mac or Windows terminal emulator capable of showing them..


Did you checkout VTstar?   That runs on Windows.   Although I'm not sure of the latest version it will work on.   I believe it works with Vista.   Here is the link anyway:

http://decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev70/vtstar/

Regards, Tim.  



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