Michelle@cup.portal.com (TRACY M WIRS) (11/06/90)
A VT100 emulator for the C64, eh? I have TWO that do that........ but I can't read them on my 40 col. screen, even WITHOUT my glasses! The screen printout is SMALL......... are you sure you want one? If you want to continue with this madness, Email me, and I'll tell you about the ones I have. tmw EITHER Michelle@cup.portal.com OR sun!cup.portal.com!Michelle
anewcomb@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andy Newcomb) (11/06/90)
VT100 emulation on a c64, I spent more time and money than I expected to attaining. A terminal package included with the 1670 modem does does VT52 emulation, with an ugly typeface. Novaterm, a shareware prog that can be downloaded from I think oswego is much better, includes a buffer, some autodialing and downloading, and lets you jiggle the bit durations, in fact has a sh--load of features. I only tried it once, don't know if that stuff helps but suspect it does; by the time I came across it my VT100 needs had been solved by Kermit v2.2 and the BI-80 card. The BI-80 card is great, plugs into the slot by the power light and gives crisp black-background 80 columns but, they haven;t made them for like seven years. Mine cost me $20 used, four months to find one, don;t know if that;s a high or low price. The thing is, before I got the BI-80 card, I always got a lot of beeps and garbled words on the monitor. It was really frustrating--my plan was to do homework at home for a change but my pascal programs seemed to come up in (heheheh) the original French. It always happened, but it;s never happened since I got this card. But I wonder if the bit duration control in the Novaterm prog would fix the problem by software. Kermit 2.2 is the only terminal program I know of that goes after VT100 emulation, as distinct from VT52. I don;t know what the difference is. It doesn;t work with the the 1660 modem, does work with the 1670 and other (?) Hayes-compatible commodore modems. /andy newcomb (anewcomb@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Newcomb 4-6748 .......... 4-3703 Room C200, Computer Center ....... Room 701 Watson beginning 6/18/90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
sd05@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Sylvain Tremblay / Eric Trepanier) (11/08/90)
In article <1990Nov6.083051.6310@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> anewcomb@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andy Newcomb) writes: >Kermit 2.2 is the only terminal program I know of that goes after VT100 >emulation, as distinct from VT52. I don;t know what the difference is. >It doesn;t work with the the 1660 modem, does work with the 1670 and other (?) >Hayes-compatible commodore modems. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Andy Newcomb 4-6748 .......... 4-3703 VT100 has a lot more editing features than VT52. It supports such thing as BOLD, REVERSE, FLASH & UNDERLINE displays (though you can't have that with a BI-80 card). Even more powerful than VT100, is VT102. VT102 has advanced editing functions like screen scroll. VT102 is a superset of VT100, wich means all of VT100's features are available in VT102. Kermit v2.2 supports VT102 very well. My main complaint towards Kermit v2.2 is the lack of a buffer, but it is the best VT100/Kermit package available for the C64. If you're lucky enough to have a C128, you should get a copy of DESTERM v2.00. Now this is what I call a HOT program. I'm not going to describe its features, it does everything! It's available for FTP at the milton site. Sincerely, Eric Trepanier -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------///------+ | Sylvain Tremblay INTERNET: sd05@terre.USherb.CA __ /// /| | | Eric Trepanier CIS: 71640,666 \\\/// # | | | Sherbrooke, Qc, Can TEL: (819) 820-0976 \XX/ _|_ |