Novaterm 9.6 release
Nick Rossi
NOVATERM 9.6
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Bring the telecommunications revolution
to your Commodore 64.
After many delays and headaches, I'm excited to finally announce the release
of Novaterm 9.6!
Novaterm 9.6 is available ON DISK, in either 1541 or 1581 format. It comes
with a 90-page user's manual. The price for the disk and manual is US$29.95.
ORDERING INFORMATION
Send check or money order for US$29.95 to:
Nick Rossi
10002 Aurora Ave. N. #3353
Seattle, WA 98133 U.S.A.
INTERNET CONTACTS
Check out the Novaterm 9.6 web site for more information:
http://www.eskimo.com/~voyager/novaterm.html
My e-mail address is voy...@eskimo.com.
NOVATERM 9.6 FEATURES
Novaterm 9.6 supports the following new features:
* Zmodem upload, download, auto-download, and crash recovery. Also supports
streaming mode with the buffer.
* Ymodem-g and Xmodem-1k-g streaming protocols with the buffer.
* Use any RAM expansion device as the buffer: REU, BBGRam, GEORam, RAMLink
or RAMDrive partition, C128 VDC memory.
* "Buffer recovery" feature retains contents of the buffer between Novaterm
sessions as long as the memory device does not lose power or get
overwritten.
* Text editor can read and write files directly from the buffer.
* Supports the SwiftLink, CommPort, HART cartridge, and Daniel Dallmann's
9600 bps user port enhancement
(see http://rpool1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~etk10217/proj.html).
* Supports the C128's fast-mode 80-column screen in terminal mode
(25, 28, 43, and 50 line modes available).
* C64 80-column emulation features "scroll-ahead" for better scrolling
performance. Optionally supports a fast scroll if you have an REU.
* Built-in ASCII translation and UUencode/decode options.
* Built-in 80-column file viewer.
* Reads real-time clock devices (BBRTC, CMD drives) for terminal mode clock
display.
* Single-menu loading of terminal emulations (finally!)
* A step-by-step user-friendly configuration utility.
Novaterm 9.6 still supports the basic feature set:
* Terminal emulations: ANSI graphics, VT100/102, VT52, Standard, and
Commodore graphics in 40 or 80 column mode.
* Protocols: Zmodem, Ymodem batch, Ymodem-g, Xmodem-1k, Xmodem-1k-g,
Xmodem-CRC, WXmodem, Kermit, Punter, Multi-Punter.
* Hardware flow control for high-speed modems
* Script language for automatic operation
* Multiple 19-entry phone books
* 16 user-definable macro keys
* Miniature BBS module / answering service
* Text editor utility with integrated script compiler
* ASCII table editor and Font editor utility
I could keep going, but you get the idea! Novaterm 9.6 supports all of the
standard features from previous versions, but its capabilities have been
greatly expanded.
Thanks for all the support and suggestions -- the new version finally made it!
Jayme Rice
: Congrats to Nick on the upgraded version and continued support of
: the Commodore community. Novaterm has always been a fantactic program!
: I want to take this opportunity to mention an incompatibility
: problem that arose just two weeks ago with Novaterm and an upgrade in
: the PINE system at our local freenet connection. We have a menu driven
: freenet system that all the sudden locked up with a blank screen and
: locked up cursor as we attempted to get to our e-mail. No other
: problems arose using any other area of our system. But users went into
: a frenzy because they could not get into their e-mail.
: We realized that this problem was with Novaterm versions 9.4 and
: 9.5, but Novaterm 9.3 worked great with no PINE incompatability. So,
: we are all still on using the older Novaterm version. If you run into
: this same problem, keep this in mind and hang on to your Novaterm 9.3.
: P.S. Would anyone please e-mail me and help me out with the
: configuration of this newsgroup. I have no problem adding to a post.
: But every time I attempt to put up a new post, I always get 441 posting
: failed. THANKS :)
: Jayme Rice
: Tampa, FL
Nick Rossi
In article <4ro9ol$m...@ns1.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
Jayme Rice <sf...@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> wrote:
>: We realized that this problem was with Novaterm versions 9.4 and
>: 9.5, but Novaterm 9.3 worked great with no PINE incompatability. So,
>: we are all still on using the older Novaterm version. If you run into
>: this same problem, keep this in mind and hang on to your Novaterm 9.3.
I got some email about this at the time that Pine came out. It turned out
to be a double bug - Pine was setting the scroll region of the screen one
higher than it should, and Novaterm crashed instead of just dealing with
it. The Pine authors immediately fixed their problem and got an update
out. Needless to say Novaterm 9.6 doesn't have its side of the problem
anymore either.
phred
On 7 Jul 1996, Jayme Rice wrote:
> : Congrats to Nick on the upgraded version and continued support of
> : the Commodore community. Novaterm has always been a fantactic program!
> : I want to take this opportunity to mention an incompatibility
> : problem that arose just two weeks ago with Novaterm and an upgrade in
> : the PINE system at our local freenet connection. We have a menu driven
> : freenet system that all the sudden locked up with a blank screen and
> : locked up cursor as we attempted to get to our e-mail. No other
> : problems arose using any other area of our system. But users went into
> : a frenzy because they could not get into their e-mail.
> : We realized that this problem was with Novaterm versions 9.4 and
> : 9.5, but Novaterm 9.3 worked great with no PINE incompatability. So,
> : we are all still on using the older Novaterm version. If you run into
> : this same problem, keep this in mind and hang on to your Novaterm 9.3.
> : P.S. Would anyone please e-mail me and help me out with the
> : configuration of this newsgroup. I have no problem adding to a post.
> : But every time I attempt to put up a new post, I always get 441 posting
> : failed. THANKS :)
> : Jayme Rice
> : Tampa, FL
Hi, Jayme! Long time no type!
Something that would be helpful would be to know which version of PINE
your ISP uses. Mine uses v3.91, and I use NovaTerm v9.5 with no problem.
Something else that could cause you trouble is if your PINE isn't
configured right for the SMTP server. Just something to think about.
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Ralph Finello
The problem was with the scrolling and "Pine version 3.93"
Contacted Nick Rossi and the problem is fixed with Novaterm 9.6
My local freenet also fixed the problem with Pine 3.9
Ralph