Terminal Emulator suitable for BBC Master Compact

NickM

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Jan 3, 2014, 9:00:41 AM1/3/14

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Please can anyone recommend a decent terminal emulator suitable for a BBC Master Compact - I gather that this machine used an optional non-standard serial I/O chip (mine has the chip fitted and working). Therefore, I can't assume that existing BBC software will worth with the Master Compact in particular, unless it has been modified to work with the non-standard setup, or perhaps uses the correct MOS system calls, in which case, it should work fine.

Does anyone have any experience with this, and if so, please could you recommend any packages? I notice that Termi and Communicator are both on EBay as ROMs, which would suit me fine, but I don't want to buy one and then find it's useless on a Master Compact.

As for what terminal emulation I'm interested in, VT52/VT100 is fine, anything that will work for using the Beeb as a Linux dumb terminal (...which I'm fine setting up on the Linux side of things).

Many thanks in advance,
Nick.

druck

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Jan 3, 2014, 7:56:26 PM1/3/14

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On 03/01/2014 14:00, NickM wrote:
> Please can anyone recommend a decent terminal emulator suitable for a
> BBC Master Compact - I gather that this machine used an optional
> non-standard serial I/O chip (mine has the chip fitted and working).
> Therefore, I can't assume that existing BBC software will worth with
> the Master Compact in particular, unless it has been modified to work
> with the non-standard setup, or perhaps uses the correct MOS system
> calls, in which case, it should work fine.

I remember using Kermit on Master and Master Compacts back at uni to
talk to various Unix systems.

---druck

Stuart

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Jan 4, 2014, 5:46:57 PM1/4/14

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In article <la7m7r$4f0$1...@dont-email.me>,

druck <ne...@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> I remember using Kermit on Master and Master Compacts back at uni to
> talk to various Unix systems.

Didn't the Master have a terminal emulator built in?

try *TERMINAL

--
Stuart Winsor

Alan Dawes

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Jan 5, 2014, 7:03:58 AM1/5/14

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In article <la7m7r$4f0$1...@dont-email.me>,
druck <ne...@druck.org.uk> wrote:

There is a very large archive of Kermit programs at the university of
Columbia where I think the original Kermit terminal program was produced.
You will find Acorn versions including BBC about a quarter of the way down
this page:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/archive.html

The manual is at
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/bbcmicro/bbckerdoc.txt

Hope this helps.

Alan

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alan....@argonet.co.uk
alan....@riscos.org
Using an Acorn RiscPC

NickM

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Jan 6, 2014, 9:25:07 AM1/6/14

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On Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:03:58 PM UTC, Alan Dawes wrote:
> In article <la7m7r$4f0$1...@dont-email.me>,
>

> alan...@argonet.co.uk
>
> alan...@riscos.org
>
> Using an Acorn RiscPC

Alan, thanks for the detailed information, and thanks Druck for pointing me in the right direction. That looks great, I'd no idea that Kermit could do terminal emulation, I always just thought of it as a file transfer protocol.

I'll give this a try.

Kind Regards,
Nick.

NickM

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Jan 6, 2014, 9:27:24 AM1/6/14

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On Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:46:57 PM UTC, Stuart wrote:
> Didn't the Master have a terminal emulator built in?
>
>
>
> try *TERMINAL
>
>
>
> --
>
> Stuart Winsor

Thanks Stuart...that doesn't seem to work for me though, I don't think the Master Compact came with the full suite of applications that the "full" Master did.

I'll try Kermit as suggested elsewhere in this thread,

Thanks for your help,
Nick.