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Would it be practical to run SHC in actual text mode, like over SSH or whatever?

It's a distinct possibility, due to the weird way it does a simulated set of terminal commands.

It's one of those "hmmm maybe" things that I'm going to think more about, to see how tough it'd actually be.

clayote4 days ago

The period-accurate way would be Telnet, right, and the fact that it's not secure doesn't matter in this case; everything's local

I went looking for a low effort embeddable telnet library and found this, but it's unmaintained. Looks like a nice API, though https://github.com/weston-embedded/uC-TELNETs/blob/develop/Examples/telnet-s_init.c

Funtime Electrics4 days ago(+1)

Yeah, that's doable. I've done telnet-adjacent things before but never the actual same protocols. Something to think about once I'm 100% sure it's stable, solid and has the other features I want.

clayote4 days ago

Awesome

And it gets you screenreader accessability for free!

Funtime Electrics3 days ago(+1)

Yep. It's a funny irony, I've had quite a few people ask about a terminal mode version of this (or a screen-reader compatible version), and the whole point of the project originally was that friends of mine couldn't or wouldn't play my terminal-mode games!

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