French Hacker Brings Classic Video Games to Vintage Minitel Terminals
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Minitel was a popular French CRT terminal system from the 1980s that had great connectivity for the time
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Enthusiasts have repurposed Minitels as serial terminals
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[Louis H] created plugin game cartridges for Minitels, presenting serial games
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The cartridges contain an ATmega328 microcontroller and fit the Minitel's DIN serial port
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First game is 2048; games have to be programmed for serial interface on the limited Minitel hardware