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From: anewcomb@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andy Newcomb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: VT100 emulator
Summary: some options
Keywords: kermit, novaterm, batteries incl.
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.083051.6310@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 08:30:51 GMT
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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)



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