Terminal emulator for Kindle 4

[sega dude]

I have a sliver Kindle 4 NoTouch that I jailbroke today. I want to do this with it. I know it's for the Kindle 3, but as far as I know, the Kindle 3 and 4 run the same software (correct me if I'm wrong). I need a terminal emulator. I don't know how to install the one linked in the guide. This is all very new to me. I have KUAL installed, along with MMK and USBNetwork. My question is, is there a terminal emulator for the Kindle 4 NoTouch? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[geekmaster]

Matan's terminal emulator (the one you linked) needs a device with a keyboard (DX/K2/K3). There is a webkit-based terminal emulator that uses the onscreen keyboard (and even has a KUAL extension to launch it). A good place to begin your search is the Master Index sticky at the top of our forum. If you cannot find it yourself, I am sure somebody will be along to assist you shortly.

[NiLuJe]

IIRC, the K4 ended up getting shafted on that front, precisely for the reason @GM mentioned: either we have emulators that rely on a full keyboard, or ones that rely on a touchscreen.

The K4 just sits in the middle, looking sad & lonely .

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

... The K4 just sits in the middle, looking sad & lonely .

I did not realize the K4 was left out. I had a partially working (native mode) K4 terminal app, which I set aside when the webkit version was announced. It used framebuffer grabs of all the K4 keyboard screen images. If I realized it had no terminal, I would have completed that project years ago.

I suppose I can resume it as part of my native mode (c program) menu/launcher/explorer I am working on, eh? I use my own character generator (but a bigger font than "titty/tinysh"), rather than trying the half-broken eips character support.

There is a terminal program that combined titty and tinysh, provided by another member. That is the partial basis for my C version, which will be the wrapper for my menu launcher (to replace KUAL on those devices that need it).

Anyway, look forward to a K4-compatible terminal emulator now that I see that need. And BTW, I was experimenting with keyboard chording on the K4, for MUCH faster text entry than using cursor keys in a key menu. I may want to resume my K4 chording keyboard experiments (most of the source code was lost due to a bad power supply killing multiple hard drives INCLUDING the backups -- why cloud storage now seems like a good idea).

So much to do, so little time, and impending (painful) death has a way of stirring priorities in unexpected ways. I wish I could hand my ideas and unfinished projects off to an apprentice or three...

EDIT: I have (literally) many hundreds of hard drives full of projects at various stages of completion -- but they need indexing and sorting just to find stuff. I could use some help there too, if only to find my kindle-related projects.

[mergen3107]

Sounds great!