[HN Gopher] Show HN: A VT52 Emulator Running in Ncurses
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       Show HN: A VT52 Emulator Running in Ncurses
        
       Author : jwmhjwmh
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-04-17 12:16 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ksherlock wrote:
       | If you want to emulate an actual VT52, you might want to start
       | with the DECscope User's Manual as your primary source.
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       | https://vt100.net/dec/ek-vt5x-op-001.pdf
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | To be fair, the author doesn't claim it's anyway good. From the
         | top of the README:
         | 
         | > This is a pretty inaccurate emulator of a VT52. I'm sure it's
         | missing several features.
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Ends up being sort of like QEMU, translating VT52 input/outputs
       | into the input/ouput whatever your actual terminal is. That's
       | pretty neat.
        
         | axiolite wrote:
         | There are others utilities which do the same. I imagine Wyse is
         | much more widespread than vt52 escape sequences today:
         | 
         | https://github.com/gutschke/wy60
        
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