[Coco] Drivewire and BBS's

[Aaron Wolfe]

I think supercomm supports the ansi screen, color and cursor controls fine,
but often people mean the graphical drawing characters when talking about
ANSI and BBSes.  It does not display those, uses the standard os9 font as
far as I know.

When I messed around with it connecting to some internet bbses, the menus
drew in the right place but sometimes weird characters where a border
should be, and the splash screens were...odd.



On Wed, May 25, 2016, 3:41 PM Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> You are not kidding, sir.  It worked exactly as you described!  Would you
> happen to have any documentation for Supercomm?  I checked the TRS-80 Color
> Computer Archive, but didn't see it (or even the program itself)!
>
> I'm interested to know if Supercomm supports ANSI codes.
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> -Ron
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Supercomm works very well with the DW virtual modem stuff.  Thats what I
> > used to test while I wrote the dw side.
> >
> > I believe it comes on the NitrOS9 disks.  You pass the device on the
> > cmdline:  supercomm /N
> > No settings matter, it should be ready to go just by starting with that
> > argument.  Echo is off by default, but an ATZ will turn it on so you can
> > see what you're typing.
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Aaron,
> > >
> > > OK, that explains my issue.  :)  It's a shame as Twilight Term looks to
> > be
> > > a decent program.  I never used it back in the day as I left the Coco
> > just
> > > as the Coco 3 was arriving.
> > >
> > > I know Brett has this working under Fuzix as well.  I will try using
> > > NitrOS9 with the commands you specified.  Any good term programs you
> can
> > > recommend?  I think Barry Nelson had one he made that may work.
> > >
> > > Thanks again!
> > >
> > > -Ron
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > First, this is only possible under NitrOS9.  I seem to recall
> twilight
> > > term
> > > > is not an os9 program, but I might be wrong.  So thats a potential
> > issue.
> > > >
> > > > Next, you must configure the terminal program to use the device "/N".
> > > Some
> > > > things are hard coded to another device, these need to be hacked to
> > work.
> > > >
> > > > Once that is done, enter "ATZ<enter>" to reset the virtual modem,
> which
> > > > enables echo and other handy things.  ATD192.168.1.1 will "dial"
> > > > 192.168.1.1.   The baud rate and other serial port settings don't
> > matter
> > > to
> > > > DriveWire.
> > > >
> > > > -Aaron
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to connect to an online BBS (synchronet) using Twilight
> > Term
> > > > and
> > > > > Drivewire 4 on a real Coco 3.  I thought I read you could just
> enter
> > > the
> > > > IP
> > > > > address as the "phone number", though it doesn't appear to work.  I
> > > have
> > > > > the term settings configured to use the bit-banger port (default
> baud
> > > > rate
> > > > > of 2400 - doubt that would even apply).
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this even possible, and if so, how?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any help would be appreciated!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you!
> > > > >
> > > > > -Ron
> > > > >
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