Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

32 points | by classichasclass 7 hours ago

2 comments

  • schobi 1 hour ago
    This post describes how to take an off the shelf VT100 serial console emulator and connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor. This device https://www.tindie.com/products/retromodem/dec-vt100-mini-te...

    This post spends a lot of attention on how to fasten, glue and adapt a specific existing keyboard and monitor from a 1U rack mounted console. If I would need a similar serial console, it will end up differently - just because my parts are different.

  • rbanffy 3 hours ago
    The VT-100 emulation seems very accurate, down to the pixel level.

    I wonder if there is anyone doing VT-340 emulation like that - shouldn’t be impossible to transpile the ROMs to something modern (I guess this is what was done here) and fill in the hardware support gaps.