Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[Chuck Guzis]

On 1 Dec 2008 at 15:46, Richard wrote:

> I think the best you could get is 40x24 or even less without the fonts
> becoming a big mushy blur.

Going through a modulator or direct video input?  With direct video, 
an NTSC TV can probably do 80x24.  Of course, you don't get ginormous 
dots-per-character (7x7 is pretty typical), but you can do it.  Why 
should this be any different from the NTSC-scan-frequency IBM CGA 
monitor?

My first video monitor was a Zenith B&W portable (tube) hot-chassis 
TV that I won in a raffle and fed directly into the video amp from my 
SWTP TVT II modified to give 64x16.  It looked fine, even if it was 
foolish on my part.

Cheers,
Chuck