PLATO-overwrite-emulator

Quick and dirty emulator of PLATO's overwrite capability

Capabilities

• CSS overlapping
• Use correct font
• Populate according to text input
• Font selector Unneeded
• Update colours to match PLATO
• Setup GitHub Pages, subdomain, etc
• Ability to load examples
• Ability to have multiple stacked characters side by side (maybe "add character" button?)
• Fix occasional black lines in stacked characters
• Ability to input PLATO specific characters (e.g. arrows, and superscript characters)
• Force display area to fill all available space
• Add some sort of "3D preview" button to show how the layers stack up

Reference

• PLATO emulator: https://cyber1.org/
  • Keymap: https://www.cyber1.org/keyboard.asp
  • More info: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/how-to-make-almost-any-computer-a-modern-day-plato-terminal/
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
• Info on emoticons: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-revisited.html
• More examples: http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html