Dragon 'Terminal Simulator' for OS9
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:44 am
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...
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...