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I used an 80 column terminal on my old C64, the name of which escapes me, to call into PC BBSes when I was a kid. After I got a C128 that was no longer necessar
by SwellJoe 9y ago
I used an 80 column terminal on my old C64, the name of which escapes me, to call into PC BBSes when I was a kid. After I got a C128 that was no longer necessary as it had an 80 column mode, but I remember it pretty vividly because even my young eyes had a hard time reading 80 column text on the smallish color TV I used as a monitor. But, it was pretty exciting the first time I was able to see the BBS in the way it was meant to be seen (minus ANSI color/graphics, as that was a bridge too far, given the limitations imposed by the hardware).
- linker3000 9y agoIf you are in the UK, it might have been my C64 Terminal program - it could render 80-col fonts in graphics mode. Then again, I expect other 80-col progs existed! Sadly I lost the code years ago - it was hand-coded in assembler with just a BASIC menu wrapper. There was also a 'mostly working' print routine that didn't block the serial comms stream (too much!).
- SwellJoe 9y agoNot in the UK. I was in small-town USA. I remember it being green, and the closest thing googling finds is VT100 by Louis Leff, which was, interestingly, written with Blazing Forth (I just learned this just now; I had no idea about Forth back then). I can't tell if VT100 actually had an 80 column mode, though...so it may have been another green-screened terminal program. I do remember it having an obscure (to me), technical-sounding name. It seemed like something out of Wargames.
- reaperducer 9y agoThe terminal program that came with the Avatar 1064 modem had an awesome 80-column mode. It had a feature that would sound the bell at the end of each line, like a typewriter, to let you know there was more content to read. I can't remember the name of it, but it was very good.