Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!jhs From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: good modem program Message-ID: <8707111641.AA13792@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 12:41:15 EDT Article-I.D.: mitre-be.8707111641.AA13792 Posted: Sat Jul 11 12:41:15 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 00:57:33 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 44 Larry : There are several vt100 emulation options. I'm running CDY Consulting's "OmniCom" program, which requires CDY's OMNIVIEW chip O/S replacement. This is commercial, and the combination costs around $50. On the other hand, for the $50 you also get an 80-column word processor and a general-purpose 80-column E: device which you can use in your own programming. On the 800, I think CDY nowadays throws in a board containing the "OMNIMON" resident debugger program, which formerly sold for more than $50 by itself at one time -- but contact CDY for details. Anyway, OmniCom does a very complete vt100 emulation compared to the others for the 8-bit Atari, and has the following features, many of which are missing from other emulators: > supports kermit, xmodem, and ASCII send from file / capture to file (or to printer) > has online "Print Screen" function for capturing short messages, e-mail addresses or other data on screen right to the printer > allows you to list directory contents when preparing to send or receive a file -- you can check name of file to send or verify it's on the disk you thought, or make sure name is not already present when receiving. I find OmniCom a real delight to use after running a couple of other terminal emulators without all these features. Then there is the ancient but honorable VT10SQ vt100 emulator. It doesn't support file transfer (at least the version I had did not) and also doesn't interpret any graphics (line drawing) commands. OmniCom does a lot more. VT10SQ is, however, available as a Public Domain program. More recently (in fact even as we speak) John Dunning has put together and is currently enhancing a Public Domain port of kermit65 from the Commodore world to the Atari. It has several terminal emulation modes, one of which is a vt100 in software, similar to VT10SQ but, like OmniCom, with a prettier font on the screen. It also has a 40-column mode and an 80-column mode in 40-column format with scrolling to show you the whole screen. Any of the vt100 emulators that puts 80 columns on the screen must be used with a monochrome TV set or monitor, or one of the color monitors that has a separate chroma input (e.g. the Commodore color monitors). -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa