XTerms + DEC stuff + misc available (Cambridge, UK)

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jul 2 14:04:43 2004

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:56, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> At 17:13 01/07/2004, you wrote:

> Well no worries if they are no good

waiting to hear back at the mo re. keyboards / displays...

> (someone else mentioned software is needed??

They need a boot image on the server. For my NCD 88k one this is about
1.5MB from memory (I have a copy somewhere!) and is transferred using
TFTP to the Xterm on startup. All the NCD boot files were readily
available a few years ago for sure, although I've no idea about Xterms
from other vendors.

> I've never played with an x-term, so was just something else ot
> put in the pile of "cool things I should play with someday when I have
> infinate time" !

Ha ha! They are pretty cool to play around with - as mentioned it was
really the sound situation which stopped me seriously using mine in the
last few years (that and only 8 bit colour)

> lol. :-) I didn't know, honest! Where is this list, might be of interest
> to me. Although this one is about the only mailing list I actually read
> daily, out of the several I am subscribed to.

As quoted by the list manager:

] Try emailing majordomo_at_cloud9.co.uk with the message body:
]
] subscribe bbc-micro

it's low traffic, but there's some really clued-up people on there when
it comes to BBC stuff (and a lot of the other Acorn 8 bit machines)


> [ Cub screen wall ]
> Sounds good :-) Why not do some simple games too? Something as basic as
> 'pong' should be easy?

hmm, now that's an interesting idea. Wonder how well it'd work in
practice - there'd probably be about 1.5" of dead space between each
screen, so I'm not sure if that'd make it feel odd or not. Worth a try,
though :)

> or ... I've got a touch-screen for a cub... find
> 15 more and you can do a "hit the pop-up beastie" game :-)

Ha ha! Those might be a bit harder to track down...

> >Running numbers through my head, it seems to be a viable project anyway.
> >Just a case of finding the time to actually implement it! (It started
> >out as a simple scrolling message system, but then it had occurred to me
> >just how stackable Cubs are too! :-)
>
> 16 monitors makes a nice 4x4 matrix - probably what made us both think of it.

Yep. I wondered about a 5x5 matrix, but the numbers don't add up to make
it viable when you look at Econet speeds and the expected data size.

cheers,

Jules
Received on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 14:04:43 BST