[Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?

[Bill]

I'd be happy to post the program on my BBS. Let me know if it's o.k.

Take care

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:47 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?
> 
> 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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