Theattyr: A terminal theater for playing VT100 art and animations

[anthk]

Just use tritty from trickle instead of pulling rust and tons of deps.

https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/

trickle can simulate an old PTS/ISDN connection speed too.

Usage:

          tritty -b9600 
          cat outerlimits.vt

Or:

          tritty -b1200
          cat outerlimits.vt

outerlimits.vt can fastly be found at the same repo of theattyr

[kristopolous]

some of these are really old. Take this one for instance: http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/bambi_godzila

Excuse me if everyone knows this but me.

[crdotson]

It’s actually older than that. I remember playing that on a VMS system in the early 80s; I believe the one I watched was on the DECUS games tape.

[wkat4242]

Nice. I still have a real VT520 here. I'll give those animations a try on that too.

[donatj]

I have a VT220 in my office. About ten years ago I used to use it regularly as a terminal for my Mac laptop. I tried hooking it up to an M1 Mac recently but had a ton of issues. First there was no drivers for my serial adapter. Once I got that straightened out, I fought with getting getty working for multiple hours yet failed to get it to work correctly.

I gave up, but I should circle back. Part of me is considering selling it.