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In Vintage/Retro mode have a feature to make a sound when a character or line is printed to the screen #16829

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oilcan-productions opened this issue Mar 6, 2024 · 3 comments
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Area-Extensibility A feature that would ideally be fulfilled by us having an extension model. Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal.
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oilcan-productions commented Mar 6, 2024

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I use Windows Terminal to interface with several Retro computers such as IMSAI 8080, PDP-8, PDP-11 using Telnet but also running some of these retro computers in a WSL session. These computers usually emulate a teletype or a VT type terminal which both have distinctive sounds when printing characters or lines.
Would love to see an option in the retro/vintage settings to enable (annoying) audio while these computers do their work.

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Implement a toggle and a drop down in the retro/vintage settings pane. Not only to enable the vintage cursor and retro font, but also allow turning on sound effects and provide a dropdown with a list of sound effects for VT terminals and line printers/teletypes so these can be configured on a per profile basis.

@oilcan-productions oilcan-productions added the Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. label Mar 6, 2024
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@carlos-zamora carlos-zamora added Area-Extensibility A feature that would ideally be fulfilled by us having an extension model. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. and removed Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements labels Mar 6, 2024
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DHowett commented Mar 6, 2024

Thanks for the request! As somebody with a loud keyboard, and memories of dot matrix printers screaming through tractor-feed paper, I appreciate the idea.

Unfortunately, it's probably not gonna be one of our core features. I think that if we have an extension model (#4000), we should make sure it's capable of this.

Tagged it up as an extensibility feature 😄

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j4james commented Mar 7, 2024

If we do one day get this functionality, it's worth noting that there is also an escape sequence we could support to control the key click volume, and effectively turn it on and off: DECSKCV

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Thanks for considering :)

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