Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!mjl From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Tek 4105 Emulators for Amigas Summary: Hmm, anyone heard of VLT? -- good VT100/Tek4105 emulator Message-ID: <5273@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 22 Aug 88 05:12:43 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 28 In article <2280@munnari.oz>, jas@mungina.cs.mu.oz (John Shepherd) writes: > Does anyone have any information on availability/suppliers for Tektronix > 4105 emulators to run on the Amiga? Either PD or commercial ... if source > code, should be able to compile under Lattice-C (not sure which version, VLT is a very good public domain vt100/tek4105 emulator for the Amiga, written by Marvin Weinstein and Willy Langeveld of SLAC. It is built upon DBW vt100 2.6 but has lots of nice extensions. Like 50 function keys, an ARexx port (!), XMODEM/1k, for example. The color palette (8 colors for vt100; 16 for the 4105) is configurable from either the startup script or from within the program (looks like the PD 'palette' code). Graphics screen is initially closed and can be closed via a menu option after working on it minimize memory usage. I've had no problems with Tek4010 plots. It does not do a full 4105 emulation yet though -- no color fills :-(. Documentation is 60 pages in TeX (ascii docs available too). I find the program to be much better than either Diga! or A-Talk-Plus, which I also own. My only real complaint concerns the absence of screen front/back gadgets (the authors prefer it that way), but you can use a PD screen-flipping keymap (like FunKeys or WKeys) to get around this. It can be found on BIX and maybe soon I can post it to GEnie. Don't think it's been on any Fish disks. Oh, and the authors continue to improve the code, though they haven't released the source yet (Willy says he will when he feels they're done with it). Maurice LeBrun, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin Internet: mjl%fusion.decnet@chpc.brc.utexas.edu or mjl%uta.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa "If cows ate plankton, whales would starve" -- old Net saying