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From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Agate
Message-ID: <13139@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 29 May 90 05:05:21 GMT
References: <13128@wpi.wpi.edu> <12591@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <12591@netcom.UUCP> lyle@netcom.UUCP (Lyle Fong) writes:
>If you run AGATE, and call a IBM board, any color code will screw up
>the screen.. either with wierd numbers and characters or clear the entire
>screen to unreadable lengths..  It does have a lot of the special character
>codes, however.. but the text is barely readable..  partly due to the
>horrible fonts.. which you can change, but is very tedious work.

???? I called up an IBM board that makes extensive use of colors.  I had no
problem (the colors obviously didn't come out, but it didn't screw things.)
The fonts are really terrible.  Using this thing for longish periods of time
will probably kill your eyes.

>The worst problem with it is the lack of a quit feature..  running it from my
>hard drive, and having to reboot everytime I run it is not fun.  It is very
>buggy.. crashing at wierd times..  even when you type in a telephone number.

Yeah, I really hate rebooting every time.  This obviously is nowhere near a
even a beta test, more like a demo.  Totally unuseable but a neat demo.

>There is no way the color could be achieved on DHR with decent resolution..
>so he should have just interpreted the color codes as nothing..

I think he did.  I had no problems with recieveing color codes.  I did have a
big problem when I attemtped to use it as a VT-100 on my mainframe.  Crash
city.

I'll probably post this to comp.binaries.apple2 on Wednesday, since I have
recieved a few requests.

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