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From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Agate
Message-ID: <13128@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 28 May 90 01:19:18 GMT
Reply-To: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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I ran across the Agate program recently on GEnie.  It's a DHR graphics based
ANSI terminal emulator that works on any Apple //, and is able to keep up with
input at 2400 baud running at 1Mhz.  Needless to say, I was quite impressed
with this.  The author said (in a doc file dated ~Dec 1989) that the program
would be finished in the new year sometime, and all of the features listed in
the doc file would be available.  Has anyone heard from this person recently? 
He's from somewhere in Canada (small place, right? :) 

Anyway, the program as I have it is fairly impressive, despite being very
seriously brain damaged.  The main options menu won't pop up as advertised,
and the roll back buffer doesn't work.  The startup screen looks like one of
the banks of the picture was fried, so the copy I have may have been munged
somewhere along the line.

So, is this thing old news?  As it is, it's not useful to most people (only
die hard ANSI graphics fans maybe) but with upload/download and some bug
fixes, it should be a great product.  It's hard to think that this program has
been floating around unnoticed for some time. At this point it's a neat demo
of what clever programming can do (if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I
would have scoffed at the idea...)

(if there is a great deal of interest I will post it to
comp.binaries.apple2)



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