BeasTTY Upgrade July 2026

I just finished a major update of my BeasTTY VT52 terminal emulator, including:

• Better UI: less clutter, more polish: banishing the "made by engineers, for engineers" look
• More bling: two new phosphor colours, and five new CRT fonts!
• Bugfixes: plenty of bugfixes, mostly to do with SLIDE transfer (which is now also 3x to 4x faster, too)
• Command Line History: press Up Arrow or Down Arrow when your cursor is at the beginning of the line to access the command history. Move up and down with the arrow keys, type some text to filter the commands that are displayed, press Tab to select an entry for editing, or press Enter to dispatch it immediately:

• Local file pane: use this for drag and drop file transfer from the MicroBeast to your local computer: simply select some file names in the terminal and drag them to the built-in filer pane.

• CSUM-compatible checksums: see CSUM compatible per-file checksums right in the file pane. Hover over a checksum until the disclosure icon appears, then click it to view the more detailed per-block checksum report. Drag the equivalent csum -v ... output from the MicroBeast terminal onto the per-block checksum window to get a block-by-block comparison of the two files:

Here's a video I made about the new stuff: