[Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?

[Todd Wallace]

Awesome!!! Thank Art for taking the time to do that. 

On Mar 1, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Encouraging news....I emailed Tim Kientzle, the author of V-term, and
> quickly heard back from him.
> He has located a disk containing the next-to-last version (2.0) of the
> program, and is still looking for the latest version (3.0).  He said he'd be
> happy to send the program, with the manual, to anyone who wants to make
> copies.  Anybody here want to volunteer to post the program and manual
> someplace where people can access it?
> 
> Tim said he was very flattered that there is still any interest in the
> program 25 years after he wrote it, and "enthusiastically" supports its
> posting.  He also was glad to hear of Dennis' hosting the list and keeping
> the "old times" alive.
> 
> Art
> Art
> 
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Todd Wallace <dragonbytes at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> Been looking for V-term. Can't find it anywhere on the net.  Also Roger, it
>> would be GREAT if you could release your term program. I bet its awesome :)
>> 
>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> I wrote Net-Mate somewhere around 1990 or so, and fiddled with it over
>> the years.  I never released this terminal program because it wasn't really
>> complete enough to hand out, but since it's modular and uses plug-ins like
>> Projector-3 does, I could try to build a basic copy of it with a few
>> emulation drivers and file transfer protocol drivers.
>>> 
>>> Net-Mate can display the graphics characters we use to see on the "fancy"
>> BBSes back in the day.  I think it does 8 FG and 8 BG colors which looks
>> very nice but the font is a reduced pixel font similar to those old 51
>> character patches for BASIC.  It looks nice and has pop-up windows and a
>> menu bar up top.
>>> 
>>> I can make a Rainbow IDE project out of Net-Mate when I get time so One
>> could just load it up and click GO to build the .dsk image of the program,
>> and maybe even finish the dern thing.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 08:04 PM 2/28/2010, you wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 28 February 2010, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>>>> V-term, formerly sold by Gimmesoft, had an outstanding VT-100 emulation
>> and
>>>>> I believe could run in 128K.  Where to find a copy now, I have no idea.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Art
>>>>> 
>>>> And my hack of vt-100 to make it vt-220 compatible also runs fine on a
>> 128k
>>>> coco. I used it regularly to call up the cbs satellite systems computer.
>> Its
>>>> out there someplace as 'vt-220.lha' or some such.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Todd Wallace <dragonbytes at cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I used Ultimaterm for many years as my primary terminal program on
>> the
>>>>>> coco3 for BBSing.  The one shortfall of that program was the lack of
>>>>>> proper PC ASCII characters.  BBS menus borders and such would appear
>> as
>>>>>> strange characters instead of vertical or horizontal lines.  The only
>>>>>> program I know of that can do the proper ASCII codes is Twilight
>>>>>> Terminal, however it requires 512k and i'm stuck with 128k.  Do you
>> guys
>>>>>> know of any other terminal program for coco3 that can properly
>> display
>>>>>> such ASCII characters with 128k?  Thanks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Todd Wallace
>>>>>> 
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