Just use tritty from trickle instead of pulling rust and tons of deps.

https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/

trickle can simulate an old PTS/ISDN connection speed too.

Usage:

          tritty -b9600 
          cat outerlimits.vt

Or:

          tritty -b1200
          cat outerlimits.vt

outerlimits.vt can fastly be found at the same repo of theattyr

some of these are really old. Take this one for instance: http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/bambi_godzila

Excuse me if everyone knows this but me.

It’s actually older than that. I remember playing that on a VMS system in the early 80s; I believe the one I watched was on the DECUS games tape.

Nice. I still have a real VT520 here. I'll give those animations a try on that too.

I have a VT220 in my office. About ten years ago I used to use it regularly as a terminal for my Mac laptop. I tried hooking it up to an M1 Mac recently but had a ton of issues. First there was no drivers for my serial adapter. Once I got that straightened out, I fought with getting getty working for multiple hours yet failed to get it to work correctly.

I gave up, but I should circle back. Part of me is considering selling it.

Yes, another major problem is that lots of apps just ignore termcap/terminfo these days and just blab xterm-256color directly to the terminal. I've heard people say that running it through tmux fixes that (tmux seems to be smart that way) but I have yet to try it. My 520 is currently in a box.

I didn't have those issues you mention but I run FreeBSD where serial and getty is still a first-class citizen. Though I don't blame Apple for deprecating it.