Fujinet and term programs

[Shift838]

My 800XL has U1MB, UAG Svideo, USB Keyboard installed.

 

I have found one term program that works with Fujinet on my 800XL and that is BobTerm.

 

Are there others?

 

I have tried Ice-T, but I get a couple of error messages when trying to launch it:

 

*Base 48K not free!

* R: device not found!

 

I know my Fujinet config is set to Virtual Modem = Yes.

 

 

[moonlight_mile]

If you are using spartados x type x before the file you are loading. I.e “x iced.com”

 

Bobterm had an r: handler built in I don’t know if all versions of iced t have them built in. You would need to load one. Rs232.com from Sparta dos usually works 

[Stefan Both]

You need a R-device driver. "BOBVERTER" for example. You may guess it already... Its programmed by the same genius.

Bobterm is already configured to load the driver first.

 

Stefan 

[Stefan Both]

Uh... much too slow. Sorry !

 

Stefan 

[Shift838]

Loading the RS232.com driver works and starting the program with X in front.  I have 2.80 Ice-T and 2.76.  Neither of them will do color ANSI.  the only selection I see in the settings is IBM graphics or standard text.

 

How do I get it to do the ANSI as I have seen in other post of images of it working?

 

 

[moonlight_mile]

I remember having the same problem however I don’t remember what version I used to get the color ansi. Next time I head down to my man cave I will

check if nobody else has an answer. 

[+Stephen]

I think it's a beta version that has it - 2.80 beta 7.  The ANSI option will be under the "special" section.

icet2807.xex

[Shift838]

3 hours ago, Stephen said:

I think it's a beta version that has it - 2.80 beta 7.  The ANSI option will be under the "special" section.

icet2807.xex 34.96 kB · 4 downloads

I load this up via my SIDE3 after I have loaded the RS232.com from SpartaDOS and after it loads within a few seconds the screen starts going wonky just display garbage and almost looks like a vertical scroll constantly like the old tube TVs.

 

if I load up an older version off ATR from SpartaDOS the screen is fine.

 

anyone have this beta version that supports ANSI in ATR format that I can run from SpartaDOS?

[Shift838]

I got it working.  I'm learning as I go since I'm so new to Atari.  

 

i loaded the RS232.com, then just executed X ICET280A7.XEX and bam.. worked..

 

[moonlight_mile]

Welcome to the party!

[Shift838]

i'm wondering if the ANSI Graphics will look better (they look off with the SVIDEO) when I install my VBXL mod.

[+Stephen]

30 minutes ago, Shift838 said:

i'm wondering if the ANSI Graphics will look better (they look off with the SVIDEO) when I install my VBXL mod.

No - the VBXE / VBXL modes do not work well with Ice-T.  I need to do some investigating to see why, but the  PMG overlay/underlay that is used to create the colouring is definitely broken on the VBXE hardware.  Keep in mind - with stock A8, there can never be proper ANSI emulation.  There is no way to have hi-res text and color info for each character.  We're lucky to get this approximation via Ice-T.

 

With VBXE, an almost true ANSI is possible.  Only caveat being, 16 text colours, but only 8 background colours.  We at least get a proper 256 character font.  Here's my latest demo code showing the original CGA font and colours:

 

[moonlight_mile]

I have sophia2 in two of my machines and if I remember correctly, the ansi for ice-t looked pretty good. Obviously not perfect but passable and not long after that I got a wimodem for my st so that is where I do most of my ansi bbsing.