alt.hn

6/14/2026 at 2:31:15 AM

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/building-serial-and-vga-everything.html

by classichasclass

6/14/2026 at 8:51:45 AM

This post describes how to take an off the shelf VT100 serial console emulator and connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor. This device https://www.tindie.com/products/retromodem/dec-vt100-mini-te...

This post spends a lot of attention on how to fasten, glue and adapt a specific existing keyboard and monitor from a 1U rack mounted console. If I would need a similar serial console, it will end up differently - just because my parts are different.

by schobi

6/14/2026 at 7:14:41 AM

The VT-100 emulation seems very accurate, down to the pixel level.

I wonder if there is anyone doing VT-340 emulation like that - shouldn’t be impossible to transpile the ROMs to something modern (I guess this is what was done here) and fill in the hardware support gaps.

by rbanffy