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From: prplworm@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 132 column terminal emulator?
Message-ID: <3898@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Mar 88 13:38:28 GMT
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A terminal emulator with VT-100? There's Handshake (Shareware), Diga! (about
$100 from Aegis, and buggy [not to mention SLOW]), and a program that is
goint commercial "Real Soon Now": Amic 1.0. I have been using Amic since
version 0.56 (I'm currently using 0.59e, waiting for a 0.97 to test), and it
is simply the BEST terminal program for ANY machine! According to the
programmers (David Salas & Albert Kirk), Amic 1.0 will support FULL VT-100,
including 132 collumn, blink, bold, underline, tall/wide characters, etc.
I think they plan on selling it for $100 (worth MUCH more, but people
registered to the Shareware version get the update free). Not sure what they're
address is, but their BBS number is 707/579-0523 (2400 baud, 8 lines). If you
don't want to spend the $100, your best bet would be Handshake (only but I
know of [second hand - never used it] is in part of the initialization). Both
Handshake and Amic 1.0 have Kermit (Amic ahs Xmodem, Xmodem 1K, WXmodem, Ymodem
Batch, Zmodem, Direct (for error-correction modems), and one called Amic-Talk,
which is like DoubleTalk in Diga! (send/recieve/chat at same time - they are
also working on a BBS program with Amic-Talk).

After typing this in, I just realized that I'm probably going to have to put
on my asbestos suit to ward off the flames for my blatent advertising on
Usenet (I am not part of Amic, btw... Only use their program:).

Chris L. Hatch
Usenet: prplworm@cup.portal.com
GEnie:  C.HATCH