On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 7:48 PM Mike Stein wrote:
> Not directly to a monitor but you can redirect the screen to the serial or
> parallel port; that would let you display on a terminal such as what Philip
> and Charles described, or even an old PC running a terminal program.
> Connect the terminal/PC to your big screen TV and connect the M100 to the
> PC via Bluetooth and relax on the couch.
>
> There are some gotchas though, mostly to do with correctly moving the
> cursor around on the foreign screen.
>
ISTR we were working on that.
It would be nice to, from BASIC
a) Change the Width + Height
b) Redirect I/O to the port
c) Have a working terminal to host on a PC that understands all M100 codes.
Maybe VT52 is enough. Of course this machine won't know the Model 100
character set > 127
But I don't thing we have all that do we?
We need a program to set the width, height and do the redirect.
Would be nice to have a terminal that can display all Model 100 characters
and handle all escapes.
Then it would be a true DVI alternative, at least as far as the display.
-- John.