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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
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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
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