vt52ish
Dev tools
terminal emulator
SHOW HN2021
19points
5comments
#1,419of 2,533 in 2021
Top 57%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Docs: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat idea, like QEMU for VT52 escape sequences
From 1 comment
Ends up being sort of like QEMU, translating VT52 input/outputs into the input/ouput whatever your actual terminal is. That's pretty neat.
tyingq on HN
Objections
Emulation is inaccurate and missing features
From 1 comment
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.
colejohnson66 on HN
Alternatives named
MAME VT52 driver
From 1 comment
If you want to emulate the VT52, you can fire up MAME. It supports that. :) https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/vt52.cpp
duskwuff on HN
wy60 (Wyse terminal emulation)
From 1 comment
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
axiolite on HN