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> cursor at last image cell: I see this as the most natural cursor behavior in terms of cursor advance, if one sees sixel input as a block of cells....

Nope. VT340 never does ANSI colours. There is only one foreground colour (I'm fudging a little here), so it is (as far as I can tell) impossible to show text...

> One more thing that still bugs me - there is no easy way to tell the TE to reset to the initial palette (yes RIS and DECSTR can do...

I hadn't expected a lot of terminals to not support DECRQM, so I had written the testdecsdm to just bomb out. I've updated it so it should work now. Which...

Yes, DECRQM does work correctly on the VT340. ## RIS, Hard Terminal Reset RIS always reboots the VT340, including having to wait for all the power on self tests. All...

> The ones I've got installed that didn't support it include the Windows console, Alacritty, st, Yaft, Rxvt, WezTerm, Contour, and of course the VT240 (via the MAME emulator). The...

That's pretty clever and is, I believe, similar to how DEC implemented 64-colour images that could be printed on 8 or 4 colour printers using their "ANSI-compatible" Printing Protocol (sixel)....

> Some notes on the palette choice for the first 16 colors: > > * I started with an even spread of 16 grayscale values. > > * I put...

Note: I tried cat'ing the snake-xterm and snake-reflection.six files to the VT340 and both of those look correct, as opposed to snake-vt340 which seemed to have some of the colors...

The media copy is too buggy and slow for complex images like this so I've taken photos of your snakes: