Best terminal app for WB 1.3?

[Colani1200]

I tried out both NComm and JR-Comm recently and they both work fine on my A500 with Kickstart 1.2. Both support ANSI gfx when picking the right font, however I found that JR-Comm is significantly faster + it has some more terminal emulation modes to choose from. Does anybody know what the latest version of this excellent piece of software is? And does anybody know how to contact the author (John P. Ranigan)? Maybe he would agree to put it on Aminet...

[Colani1200]

Significantly faster how?  Connection speed should depend on the serial.device, the modem and preference settings.

True, so it must be the gfx/text performance. Pages build up noticably quicker on JR-Comm, at least on my stock OCS A500 with 1 MB chip RAM. I tested both programs with a 19.2 kbps connection.

I remember moving up to NComm to get ANSI capability.  At the time, I was very impressed with it.  IIRC, the full last version is available today on Aminet (freeware?).

There is a 3.0 version, 3.06 update and free keyfile, yes.

[Colani1200]

Wasn't JRComm replaced by Terminus which required WB 2.x of later.

Terminus works happily on WB 1.2. I can't see any advantage to JR-Comm and NComm though.

[Colani1200]

are you running them both in the same number of color planes? ie jr-comm running in mono or 4 color vs ncomm running in default 8 color?

I ran them both in 8 color mode and connected to d1st.org, a BBS with quite massive ANSI gfx.

[Colani1200]

I believe NComm has a smaller memory footprint, slightly smaller than JRComm, and NComm seems to be speedy on 1.2, 1.3 systems and it should give you everything you need.  It was the first term program I used in the modem days for the amiga.

JRComm is also good, but seems to be better suited for 2.0 and up environments.

I think you're mixing up the two, JR-Comm is definitely faster on 1.x and also uses slightly less RAM. A freshly started JR-Comm leaves me with 482056 bytes free on my A500, vs 464712 bytes using NComm. Both with an 8 color screen. NComm has the clear advantage of being available for free in Aminet though.

[Colani1200]

On a completely, not completely unrelated side note:
How's performance with such slow systems? I'd like to hook a miggy up to a Linux box over the serial port, but I'm not sure it'd actually be usable.

I just posted a video which should give you an impression:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65930

This is NComm with 8 colors. Less colors = more speed.
JR-Comm = even more speed