[Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Feb 28 21:04:17 EST 2010


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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