Yea, I could just load up any distro and learn with the default terminal, but that's not the dream.Īnyways, I've spent a few hours every day trying to get this working in any way I could. I have a desire to learn how to use a terminal extensively in linux and this would be perfect for that. i chalked this up to the display being old and bad and gave up.Ībout a week ago this video: Fanciest Looking Terminal Emulators on the Planet popped up in my Youtube feed and I saw a demo of Cool-retro-term and realized that its what Ive been looking for. I banged my head against the wall trying different things to get it to work, and I got something to display, but it was crazy unfocused. I bought an active HDMI to VGA converter and nothing worked. I bought a old green CRT with a VGA input on ebay and tried everything I could to get it to connect to that display. When the first raspberry pi came out I attempted to get something going. I've always had it in the back of my mind that I want a dedicated text display that functioned similarly. I spent hours and weeks and months in front of that thing teaching myself to program in basic. My dad had a commodore 16 that he gave me along with an old green CRT monitor. I have very fond memories from when I was a child in the late '80s and '90s.
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