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From: costello@eplrx7.uucp (Tim Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tek graphics emulation.
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Date: 28 Oct 89 20:07:49 GMT
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From article <20823@usc.edu>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
> No, neither JRComm nor Online do Tek 4100/4200 graphics.  VLT supports
> the most simple Tek 4100 escapes (draw line, point, change color), but it
> is not usable with any of the commercial packages.  We've had a Tek 4105
> emulator done since 1987, but it is not clear if it will ever be released.
> 
> -- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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	Gee, why might that be?  Is there some legal problem with releasing
it?  Could you release it as shareware?  I remember some company from Alabama 
was selling a 4105 emulator with adds in AmigaWorld and one other Ami magazine 
a few years ago.  However, the add gave a date as to when the package would be 
available (another RSN story).  Anyway, as far as I know, the actual package 
was never released.  Sorry, I just can't seem to remember the name of the 
thing...

	Anyway, I think there is a crying need for this package, at least for
those of us in technical fields.  So many "mainframe" (couldn't think of a
better term) packages that use graphics use 4105 style terminal output, that 
almost everyone I know using a PC or a MAC is using a 4x0y emulation package of
some sort.  Including me, as I have a (YECHHH) PS/2 on my desk at work, Amiga's
are not, hmmmm, accepted well around here.  Personally, a commercial package
like that, would make my efforts to convince the powers that be, that I should
have an Amiga on my desk and not this silly (makes me) blue thing.

	I use VLT right now because it's the closest thing available.  The
biggest drawback in it's 4105 emulation is the lack of separate DIALOG and
GRAPHICS areas, which 4x0y terminals do have.  There are also problems with
selective erasure and even tho' differing colors are recognized, sometimes
the color isn't right.  (Quite often I get dark gray instead of white, which
makes it very hard to see against a dark background.)  The latest version of
VLT that I have is 4.064 (I think), if it makes a difference.

	
Tim Costello
Du Pont
Medical Products
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