On 2013-09-18 10:23, Sampsa Laine wrote:
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.
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:
Sadly it doesn't work either. I'm tempted to write some kind of shim that would
capture ReGIS / Sixel escape sequences and draw them on Terminal.app.
The protocols are pretty simple.
To point out a few (maybe obvious) things.
Sixel graphics is not the same as soft fonts. Soft fonts are defined in a very sixel-like
format, but you cannot get a sixel graphics image and display it on such a terminal.
The soft fonts do indeed differ between the terminals. There are some limited backward
compatibility between them, but that is best left alone. The differences are pretty much
just a question of different resolution, or size of the character cell if you want to put
it that way.
Also, I think a couple of extra parameters were added to the escape sequence along the
way, but nothing really significant.
The OS do not really have to do anything in relation to this. It's just like any other
font on the terminal. You can switch between them using escape sequences, and the OS is
none the wiser.
I've designed fonts for pretty much all VT models, in both 80 and 132 column format. I
did this for the Z-machine font, which I used with my Z-machine emulator when playing
Beyond Zork.
And so, yes, I have a font editor. This have been mentioned before on the list. It can be
found at MIM::DU:[FED]. Written in C (not by me originally], converted to DECUS C, and
adapted to handle most VT models. Free to play with if people want...
Johnny
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