Chaos Post@c3isdn 👀 Maaaybe this'll work well enough to be usable. (Currently the optimizations for slow links, i.e. 56k modems, still need work. Also support for PETSCII and other charsets. Also non TrueColor colors but the infrastructure is there.)
Manawyrm | Sarah
lars@ls @ChaosPost @c3isdn @eventphone We have BTX at Congress! Bring your old terminals if you got them...
We've also heard from some french Minitel enthusiasts (the french BTX equivalent, quite similar technology) that they're bringing their terminals as well!
CCC event ISDN/POTS network@manawyrm @ls @ChaosPost @eventphone the really interesting part would be some actual interactive services via BTX and not just showing archived old BTX pages.
Christian Berger DECT 2763@c3isdn @manawyrm @ls @ChaosPost @eventphone Well the software is missing a way to call external programs for that. It wouldn't be to hard to write such services, but integrating them into existing code is hard.
korfuri@casandro @c3isdn @manawyrm @ls @ChaosPost @eventphone yo, I'm one of the people bringing Minitels to 38c3. I had never heard of BTX before but I do have the infra to run a V23 softmodem with Asterisk, and I'm hoping to use that during Congress. From the limited info I've found this may be useful, maybe?
Either way count me in to build some hacky contraption that enables BTX-to-Minitel interaction. The true European dream is at hand!
@korfuri @casandro @c3isdn @ls @ChaosPost @eventphone Yeah, probably. We also have a number of different ways of terminating those modem calls now. We can try various different mechanisms at the event :)
@korfuri Certainly, the standards are fairly similar. From what I can tell BTX and Minitel share the basic architecture, but BTX used 8 Bit codes and has a few more features
If you want to experiment, there's a software decoder here:
https://github.com/bildschirmtext/btx_decoder
And some pages here:
https://github.com/bildschirmtext/reconstructed_pages
and here:
.https://github.com/bildschirmtext/bildschirmtext
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉@manawyrm @ls @ChaosPost @c3isdn @eventphone I don't have an old #BTX terminal but I have a Raspberry Pi 4B in a self-made videophone case and an optional mini keyboard … (the BTX screen is only a screenshot, but if anybody wants to put a real BTX emulator on it, let me know …)
#grannophone https://www.grannophone.de
Edit: To clarify, I won't be at the Congress, but the case design can be found on Github and is released under CC-by-NC-SA 4.0 — so feel free to build your own! (Lasercutter recommended)
