[Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Sun Feb 28 21:13:21 EST 2010


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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