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- D e s T e r m V 2 . 0
- C128 80 Column Terminal Program
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- Reviewed by Dave Matthews
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- $25 Shareware
- Desmond Software Industries
- 265 Beechlawn Drive
- Waterloo N2L 5W8
- Cananda
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- This shareware terminal program is the best terminal I have ever used,
- and that includes Amiga and PC Commercial offerings. Matthew Desmond, the
- author, is asking $25 dollars, and my recommendation is BUY THIS PRODUCT
- before he wakes up and raises the price.
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- The reason I first looked at DesTerm was its ANSI support. (A note of
- thanks to Dick Heckert for the DesTerm disks). ANSI is a popular character
- set definition in the PC and Telecomming world. It allows simple graphics,
- color and other effects to be displayed on any computer that supports it.
- Of course, the C-64 and C-128 also have color and simple character
- graphics, and BBSs that support this, but ANSI, coming from the MSDOS camp,
- is of course seen far more often.
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- Desterm fully supports ANSI, as well as VT102, and C-64/C-128 color
- graphics. I have tried DesTerm on many PC and Amiga bulletin boards and it
- performed flawlessly, displaying the ANSI graphics and colors perfectly.
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- OF course, a good term program also has many other features, and
- DesTerm seems to have them all: large text buffer, autodialing, support for
- Hayes and Commodore modems, support for Xmodem, Ymodem, Punter and text
- uploading and downloading, support for various disk drives and printers,
- and powerful scripting. The author even claims support for up to 9600
- baud, using a RS232 cartridge such as the one from CMD, although I don't
- have the good fortune of having one to try.
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- Moreover, DesTerm uses a neat and easy to use menu system, which
- supports keyboard and 1351 mouse. A few clicks of the mouse button are
- enough to accomplish any task.
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- Another feature is 'overlays'. This is a sort of a modular 'hook'
- that ambitious programmers can use to add features to DesTerm. One I know
- of is an overlay to improve the display of 50 rows of text on the screen.
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- I have used DesTerm to log on to many Amiga and PC Bulletin Boards,
- and have downloaded a number of Amiga programs, (using Big Blue Reader to
- transfer them to the Amiga), and have yet to run into a problem.
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- If you're looking for a powerful, inexpensive and easy to use terminal
- program , particularly one that supports ANSI and 2400-9600 baud modems,
- you can't go wrong with this one!
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- DM
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