On 2013-07-23 23:58, Mark Abene wrote:
Assuming you're aware of this page:
http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECDLD
Johnny, wasn't there a version of Pac-man using DECDLD graphics written
in your neck of the woods? I seem to remember it was written in Pascal
on TOPS-20, possibly at KTH.
Quite possibly, but I can't recall offhand. I have (had) some prank fonts, as well as
my own designed fonts for the Z-machine. And I know there is a GIF viewer out there, which
uses soft fonts to render pictures on some VT terminals (not sure exactly which ones,
though...).
Johnny
-Mark
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Julian Wolfe <julian at
twinax.org
<mailto:julian at twinax.org>> wrote:
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I was playing around with the
DECDLD commands in the VT220 programmer's reference guide to make
character graphics on the VT220 (I'm actually using Mac240, a VT220
emulator that has full DECDLD support at a VT220 level)
I'm having a problem getting characters to join at the top of the
cell. The top two pixels don't seem to meet.
I see some material about VT320 but the addressing of the matrix
seems quite different on that terminal.
I'm using 7-bit encoding to create the characters. Do I need to
use 8-bit in order to use the full matrix?
I'd be surprised if anyone on here has actually messed with this,
but I thought it was worth a shot.
I can also toss my work at whoever has a VT220 lying around to see
if they can test it as well.
Any input is appreciated (as long as I can decode it, ha ha)
Julian
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