Grab the sources from https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ and build it. Documentation is lacking,but you should be able to find out what options are needed to enable ReGIS and Sixel graphics by running "./configure --help"
Mike On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 1:47 PM Douglas Taylor <dj.tayl...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 6/18/2021 8:49 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > > IIRC, Xterm has ReGIS and Sixel support in it's code these days, but most > Linux distro disable those features in their prepackaged builds for some > reason. > > > Really? I'm interested. How do you build your own xterm? > > Doug > > > Mike > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 3:50 PM Douglas Taylor via cctech > <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Right, according to the few notes I've seen on the packages currently >> for sale on ebay. >> >> I hesitate to buy because I picked up a similar piece of software, >> Smarterm 240, which seemed to do the desired emulation. It was old >> software for DOS, but I have an old DOS machine I use for PUTR I thought >> I could install it on and be up and running. It didn't turn out that >> way because Smarterm wanted a particular video card and driver (which I >> didn't have, of course). I didn't find that out until I got the package >> open and tried installing it. >> >> I don't know if the Reflection software has any restrictions like that. >> The versions I see for sale are for Win3.1 and such, not exactly the >> heyday of plug and play. I was hoping to get some guidance from someone >> who has used the Reflection software on what the actual >> hardware/software requirements are. >> >> On a side note, emulating a Tektronix 4010 is apparently free and high >> quality (see github). It is the DEC graphics terminals that no one has >> produced an open source emulation software for, so that's why I am >> asking this question. >> Doug >> >> On 6/18/2021 1:16 PM, Bill Degnan wrote: >> > Reflection 4 should do that, right? >> > Bill >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:15 PM Douglas Taylor via cctech >> > <cct...@classiccmp.org <mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: >> > >> > Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will >> > emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal? >> > >> >
