OS4 terminal emulator w/ ANSI color emulation?

[cgutjahr]

AmTerm seems full featured

The best Terminal emulation on OS3 was Olaf Barthels Term. Given the author, it's probably safe to assume this is written properly and runs fine on OS4. And it doesn't require MUI which is always a very, very good thing.

What is it that you actually want to do? A port of SSH or (if the server is local) Telnet might be all you need.

Is it wise to "branch" off and find a different ver of MUI and lay it onto OS4?

No. Especially not for a terminal program, there's plenty of alternatives out there.

[cgutjahr]

I downloaded Term by Olaf -- for '020/'030/etc and it doesn't run under OS4.1FE.

I'm 100% sure it used to run under 4.0 and (probably) 4.1, can't remember the exact setup required though - it's been to long.

And when I try to run it again it complains that serial.device is busy (I want to use it over ethernet for SSH/Telnet tho)

You need to use a replacement (fake) serial.device that supports TCP, these can be found on Aminet. That's true for any Amiga Terminal program you might want to use though.

In the end I want to SSH/Telnet to a Limux box and have color, ANSI emulation on board.

Unless said Linux box is local, you shouldn't use Telnet, AmTelnet or any Amiga terminal programs due to their lack of or completely outdated encryption technology.

For SSH'ing into a Linux box I simply used Steven Solie's ssh port. I did have some setup issues with either the cursor keys or the German umlauts (can't remember the details) - but given the upload date of the package now on os4depot, I was probably using an earlier version.

As for how much ANSI the OS4 console supports - no idea. just give it a try.

[cgutjahr]

The installer drops in different .device files (and other files) depending on whether target platform is running AmiTCP, AS225 R2, I-Net 225, or MultiLink.

AmiTCP set the standard for Amiga TCP stacks: it makes a bsdsocket.library available that external programs can then use to send TCP requests. All later TCP stacks are compatible with that approach, including OS4's roadshow.

I'm pretty sure people had telser.device running in the early days of OS4. I don't know if it still works with FE though. And frankly, setting this up is not a beginner's job - you might want to try other approaches before going down that route.

Is there a reason you don't want to try ssh? Unless you're 'calling' an actual BBS connected to the internet (which would introduce additional requirements like ZModem, that SSH can't provide), I don't see a reason to use a terminal program.