[Coco] NetMate software being resurrected

[Roger Taylor]

On the side, I have been reassembling a project from the past called 
NetMate, and various other working names for that matter.   It's basically 
a color graphics-based version of Ultimaterm, although it is not Ultimaterm 
at all.

I used this terminal program to see all sorts of ANSI-BBS color graphics 
back in the 90's.  I think it's set to expect a stock RS-232 Pack or any 
6551 mapped to 65384.  It has an 8k FIRQ-driven modem receive buffer.

To show how easy it is to develop programs and modular programs using 
Portal-9, I have thrown together a semi-working (untested) version of 
NetMate which includes a few terminal emulations (TTY, ANSI, VT-100) and 
the Xmodem-CRC protocol.  The mess of other external modules (protocols and 
emulations) are yet to be added in.  Most of my programming time goes into 
Portal-9 right now.

The NetMate program is not rendered stable, nor is it complete enough to 
use other than playing around, but I wanted to give an idea.  I will 
eventually include NetMate in the Portal-9 package for all to reassemble 
and change around, or make new projects from.

Here is a 35-track JVC .dsk file.  NetMate requires a 6309 CPU and 512k.
http://www.coco3.com/downloads/net.zip

Press ALT-T for the emulation dialog, ALT up/down for the protocols, ALT-L 
(load file), ALT-S (save file)
I suppose just play around with the ALT keys, as you can't really hurt 
anything.


{Roger Taylor}