I took a lid from jewel box that matched the oak frame dimensions to complete the casing. It's a wooden tablet! Also downgraded to #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W so plenty of room inside. Still, a full-blown #ARM64 #Linux.
It will run dashboard w/#GNU Screen or Lynx etc. to show e.g. #teletext spotprices, weather etc. or random #ANSIart.
#DIY #HomeComputing #LowEnd #Terminal #Monochrome #TextMode #VT102 #CP437
Mais um dia de passagem do garbage collector
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/05/19/mais-um-dia-de-passagem-do-garbage-collector/
#MundoRetro #6502 #BenEater #CP437 #DEC #GarbageCollector #IBMPC110 #Intel80386 #KenShirriff #LLaMa2 #MicrosoftBASIC #MSDOS #PDP11 #RaymondChen #TCPIP #Venix
Clube do MS-DOS e assemelhados Raymond Chen fala de alguma coisa envolvendo a primeira década do Windows, já sabe, né? A gente para e lê. Agora, por exemplo, ele está falando dos usos dos ícones do moricons.dll, dos programas DOS que usam ícones no progman.exe e dos programas DOS que usam ícones no moricons.dll. Porque
All those words and they didn't even consider that it's a symbol to represent a physical margin/tab-stop from typewriters smh XP
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/
The fun thing is: Changing the font in vconsole.conf works on boot for a moment while the system status messages are scrolling through.
… then the screen turns black for a moment and the TTY is presented for logging in – using a completely different font and codepage.
A font and codepage by the way, that do not support most characters that are supported by #CP437 and the font set in vconsole.conf.
#fbdev #vconsole #unimap #fbcon #keymaps #codepages … 3 hours of unproductive time wasted on research why one machine uses code page 437 (the Linux default code page for #tty) and the other machine doesn’t.
It is mentioned on several pages, that the default is #CP437, and how I can change this default, but it seems like a mystery or forbidden knowledge WHY it is changed, without me actively changing it.
It might have to do with the screen resolutions of those two devices, or that one is an #Intel #GPU and the other is #Nvidia. But i was not able to find anything of value.
Oh #fuck this shit.
#ModernLinuxProblems #MagicBullshit
Can the system please let ME be in control and not doing seemingly undocumented random shit that is not represented in any configuration and feels like it’s hidden in a blackbox?
That would be great, thanks.
You might think rendering #MSDOS #ANSIart on a modern #Windows is just fine because it still supports the old codepages, including #cp437. Well, sort of.
Some escape sequences are interpreted differently than ANSI.SYS did. In the worst case, you'll just see garbage. Most files are "sane" enough though, but even then, the default colors are "just wrong"...
#dos2ansi takes advantage of the 256color support available since Windows 10 to mimic the original #VGA palette. It also renders to a virtual canvas first, exactly emulating ANSI.SYS, and then uses a safe subset of ANSI for actual output. And it can read and display #SAUCE metadata. 😎
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