#Amiga Terminal Program
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My name is Bill Bond. I have been lurking for about a month while trying to get
up to speed on Amiga Development. I am a Mac developer who recently got an
Amiga development system. I have several products that are being published for
the Mac. In particular, I have developed several communications products. I am
also the author of "FreeTerm" which is a public domain Mac terminal program
which supports text and xmodem sends/receives. I am interested in producing an
Amiga version of FreeTerm. FreeTerm is written in C and it is my intent to port
it. What I'd like to suggest is that we form an informal working group to help
get everyone's Amiga "online". I see this as probably requiring two steps 1) a
small Basic program which can be typed in to act as a bootstrap 2) an Amiga
version of FreeTerm. From here users can move on to other programs if they
wish. As a developer, I will probably start work on a more sophisticated
version which I will publish (Amiga FreeTerm will be free). This approach was
used succesfully to get our Macs online and I would like to see it applied
again. Looking for comments… (P.S. I already have the Lattice C compiler and
the developer docs)
Bill,
Excellent ideas! By the way, even after purchasing a number of popular
term programs for the Mac, I find FreeTerm to be more reliable (and more
convenient) for the time I spend on CIS. <Thanks!> A couple of comments on
your proposal: it'd be nice if the "AmigaBinary" standard conformed to the
<yet-to-be-disclosed> IFF specifications. (MaxiSoft has a structure defined
for passing workbench-related .INFO for a file within their MaxiComm program,
altho I don't know what it looks like.) Also, the BASIC "bootstrap" should
probably be written in AmigaBasic (aka MS-Basic) as ABasiC will soon be taking
an extended holiday in England…
If you'd like to setup a CO to discuss some of these issues I'm sure
you'll get a _variety_ of good ideas. Let me know if I can help.
— Joe