Re: Good VTxxx emulator for non-enhanced //e?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

In article <slrnd8pam4.s1l.jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx>,
Jay Maynard  <jmaynard@conmicro.cx> wrote:
>My roommate has a //e without the enhancement kit, but with two disks and a
>Super Serial Card. I need a *good* VTxxx (preferably VT220, but VT100, or in
>a pinch VT52 will do) terminal emulator for this box. zlink appears to want
>the enhanced //e (it runs fine on Virtual II with the 65C02 enabled, but
>dies horribly with a straight 6502, as it does on the real machine).
>Kermit's VT100 isn't good enough; the device I'm connecting to sends an
>escape sequence (clear screen, probably) that puts it into 40-column mode,
>and things are horribly broken from that point on. It should run at 9600
>baud, and can use XON/XOFF or hardware flow control if necessary. I'd rather
>not pay for ProTerm unless there's no other option.

IIRC, ProTERM needs a 65C02 to run anyway, so unless you have one of those
kicking around, your roommate's IIe isn't going to run it anyway.

Many comm apps will have trouble running on an original IIe; the 80-column
firmware disabled interrupts for an unreasonably long time, so you'll end up
dropping characters when the screen scrolls.  (Even at the now-glacial pace
of 2.4 kbps, you'll drop characters all over the place...been there, done
that.)  I think ProTERM managed the screen directly, which was why it worked
OK.  (I could be remembering things incorrectly.)  Another possibility would
be AGATE, which sidesteps the bad 80-column firmware by using double Hi-Res. 
As long as you have 128K or more, this should work.  It aimed more for ANSI
emulation (with IBM graphics, which is why it used DHR) than VT100, so it
may or may not work for your purposes (what usually got implemented as "ANSI
emulation" was a subset of VT100 emulation).

  _/_
 / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail)
(IIGS( http://alfter.us/            Top-posting!
 \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden            >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFCjTmpVgTKos01OwkRAvCmAKCWNQB7UIaBKoSeQHeDcVywEexAiwCg6/pp
Y7566zS0CCde2d1P0ntmBn4=
=C8Vb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----