Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

[Harald Weidner <hweidner@gmx.net>]

Hello,

David Purton:

>I got it working quite nicely using the advice given in a previous response to
>my mail.  I'm using what I think is a null modem cable (it was just advertised
>as a data transfer cable).  I'm still hunting around for a terminal emulator
>though.  It works with the basic vt52 emulator which came on the ST Language
>disk, but the vt52 terminal lacks the features to run pine, so it's of
>somewhat limited use.  I also got results with kermit and a vt100 emulator
>called miniterm, which I downloaded from www.shareware.com.  This is still
>not perfect, so I'll hunt around a bit longer.

Two good terminal programs for the Atari ST are "ConNect" and
"StarComm". They both support vt100, vt200, including colors,
latin1 charset, etc.

Harald