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> Would sixel graphics ingestion on a vt340 be fast enough to do something similar to "interlaced" half image screen updates? Not in general. The serial port seems to be...

> Oh right, that is way beyond any serious data transfer for pixel animations. I always tend to forget that the vt340 is a product of the 80s, where serial...

> > I'm assuming that's the kind of preloading trick you had in mind? > > Yes, thats at least something, although still quite limited due to only spanning over...

_@jerch writes_ > > no matter what number it is called, the VT340 assigns them in the order seen. And it starts over from 1 every time it sees a...

printf "\e[?38h\e[?38l" Clears the screen but does *not* reset the color palette. Auto wrap mode is not modified. That definitely sounds like a bug in the VT240 firmware; the Tektronix...

Very interesting! I think they may not have documented it before because the behaviour seems kind of glitchy. So, first switching to monochrome then back to colormap 1 *does* reset...

> Oh and this is also something for the errata document. The escape sequence for `DECSTGLT` is given as `CSI Ps ) }` while I believe it should be `CSI...

> This is listed as page 288, which for me is page 302 in the PDF I thought I fixed the page numbering in the PDF. Do you not get...

> > First, switching to Colormap-2 produces reverse background colors that are much darker than in Colormap-1. > > So in order to emulate this behavior on the VT340, I...

That is a good hypothesis. It makes sense to me more than anything else does and it correctly predicts the bright reverse color scheme. Here's the final chart and a...