Cygwin? bash and ssh.
Btw: This is what cygwin looks like on my machine:
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Sorry to hear, I can try it myself when I get my hands on a Windows machine.
Did you by any chance try MobaXTerm? It has a nicely wrapped Cygwin environment and should work as well? Perhaps as a last try?
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Sorry, I hardly know anything about terminal windows but managed to use the command given on the webiste, i.e.: ssh -p 8080 -l magnetic magneticscrolls.net
How do I use this “bash”?
I wonder if I am doing it wrong - I read that both Cygwin and Mintty has Sixel support but I just get ASCII characters on the screen so it is probably me doing it wrong. Thomas Dettbarn could get it to work with Cygwin so it probably won’t help if I keep installing new programs. The problem is probably me knowing too little about terminals, e.g. I don’t know why Thomas metioned “bash” above.
So bash is where you type in the commands.
Please do the following:
- open a cygwin window
- type in
env - copy the output here
- type in
ssh -p 8080 -l magnetic magneticscrolls.net - select T
- select 7
Make a screenshot (Press Windows+Shift+S), mark the whole cygwin window, paste it here.
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I had a go at this on my Windows machine, but to my unpleasant surprise, I can only confirm your experience. Did not get any of the many Terminal programs I tried to properly display the sixel chars. Neither in native nor in Cygwin.
Wonder what might be causing this. I must confess that Windows is not my primary platform, so I might be missing something. I am quite sure that this worked earlier on Windows as well, but my memory might be failing me. Perhaps it is a matter of the emulation. Hmmm…
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EDIT: Please note that I may be over-careful regarding IT safety but combined with the hassle and the fact that I finally found some pretty good utf-settings, I will stop pursuing the sixel graphics.
About the good utf settings which fits very well with font size 16 and font MS Gothic (the font is VERY important for the graphics if anybody else is reading this). At first I did not understand the relation between the font size and the graphics and also the chosen font.
But thanks for making a cool interpreter!
So if anybody is new to this like me and can’t get sixel graphics to work, I recommend these utf-settings instead for starters (I found the recommended columns and rows resulting in a too big picture for my taste):
*** CURRENT GRAPHIC SETTINGS [Windows 10, font: MS Gothic size 16]
<A> Render mode: utf
<B> Columns: 158 <<< RECOMMENDED: 197 >>>
<C> Picture Rows: 30 <<< RECOMMENDED: 39 >>>
<E> Correct aspect ratio
<F> Text alignment: block
*** CURRENT SOURCE SETTINGS
<I> Game: The Pawn
Source: Commodore 64Great. Thank you for sharing this solution. If anybody knows the PROPER way to use Sixels, please post it here. 
Anyways… Please enjoy magneticscrolls.net. Hopefully, you are going to have as much fun playing as I had setting it up.
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Alright… Version 0.37 is out.
As always, get it here: https://dettus.net/dMagnetic/dMagnetic_0.37.tar.bz2
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