Dragon 'Terminal Simulator' for OS9

A place to discuss everything Dragon related that doesn't fall into the other categories.
Post Reply
bluearcus
Posts: 142
Joined: Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:45 pm

Dragon 'Terminal Simulator' for OS9

Post by bluearcus »

Here's something I've been meaning to post for a while.

Duncan Smeed brought a little bare cartridge board along to the Dragon meet last year which when plugged into a machine booted straight Telepost Systems 'Terminal Simulator'. A little inspection of this program suggested the cartridge was on OS9 system and application all on ROM, and that maybe this could easily be extracted to run from disk.

An OS9 disk with the extracted application is attached. A readme file is included on the disk.

The terminal application, DRAGTERM, relies upon go51 being loaded, and the acia51 driver and a T device descriptor for the Dragon64 serial port. The tmode command should also be available (either loaded or in the execution path). For more detail, see dragterm.readme on the disk.

As the go51 display driver shares the same terminal control characters with the DragonPlus 80 column driver then this application should work nicely after go51 then go80 to turn a DragonPlus equipped Dragon64 into a fast 80 column terminal...
Attachments
TermSim40.dsk
OS9 Telepost systems Terminal Simulator
(180 KiB) Downloaded 356 times
Last edited by bluearcus on Sun Aug 08, 2021 7:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
admin
Site Admin
Posts: 409
Joined: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:22 pm

Re: Dragon 'Terminal Simulator' for OS9

Post by admin »

Cool - Do you have the original dump of the rom available as well.....
Simon Hardy
sixxie
Posts: 1346
Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:36 am
Location: Hertfordshire
Contact:

Re: Dragon 'Terminal Simulator' for OS9

Post by sixxie »

admin wrote:Cool - Do you have the original dump of the rom available as well.....
bluearcus uploaded it here (i happen to remember noticing!)
Post Reply