[Coco] Best terminal program with PC Ascii support?

Todd Wallace dragonbytes at cox.net
Sun Feb 28 21:32:31 EST 2010


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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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