Best terminal app for WB 1.3?

[Duce]

Problem with ANSI usually always falls back to the font issue.  Use the right font and you'll rarely see issues.

[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.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

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.

Then there is "Term", which is admittedly very large but very functional, might be overkill and probably only 2.0 and up.

[nyteschayde]

ncomm without any doubt

Oh wow that brought back memories. +1 vote for ncomm!

[shaf]

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

[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.

[bbond007]

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.


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

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 run on my minimig 1.1 which has much better chipram speed so I don't notice any difference at all.

[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.

[smerf]

@Blakespot,

Hey if you can find one look at the fred fish collection if you can find a list, they had a really good terminal porgram, during the first three months that it came out, I know because I needed a program when I was in the Navy, I was using a C< 64 to put training stuff in the mainframe, bought an Amiga and found that program on fred fish, can't remember the name but it was during the first 3 months that Amiga came out.

Best part it was free.

smerf

[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.

[whabang]

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.

[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

[motrucker]

I still like Baud Bandit. I have BB 2.0.

[Linde]

Are there any good VT100 style telnet terminals that run windowed? Like whabang I'm more interested in controlling a headless linux system than logging into BBSes, so ANSI character sets and loads of colors isn't that important to me

[amiga-penn-wchester]

ANSI BBSs were never a big deal for me either.  In fact, I used 4color screen for NComm and JRComm and I still maintain NComm was snappier, regardless of the throughput (serial throughput is going to vary).  Bring it up to 8 or 16 colors and you are starting to see some load on the ami system, which affects the printing of characters to screen and the like.  

I though AmiTCP came with a VT100 emulator (napsaterm), could be mistaken or corrected on it though.  Didn't use AmiTCP much once MiamiDX came along.

[Tenacious]

Are there any good VT100 style telnet terminals that run windowed? Like whabang I'm more interested in controlling a headless linux system than logging into BBSes, so ANSI character sets and loads of colors isn't that important to me

VLT?   It's on Aminet.