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- MINITERM 128
- by
- Michael LePaglia
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- COMMODORE MICROCOMPUTERS MAGAZINE
- September/October, 1986.
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- **************************************
-
- NOTE: Because of the nature of this
- program, it cannot be run via
- LOADSTAR's operating system. To
- access MINITERM 128, you must BLOAD it
- directly from the disk.
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- **************************************
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- MINITERM 128, is a machine-language
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- DRIVER for BASIC terminal programs.
-
- Because you OPEN the channel to the
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- modem from your own BASIC program,
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- you can select your baud rate: 300,
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- 1200, or 2400. The driver resides
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- from $1300 to $1700, thus you can
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- BLOAD it at the start of a session
-
- and put the OPEN and SYS statements
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- on a function key. For example:
-
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- KEY2,"OPEN5,2,2,CHR$(6)+CHR$(0):
- SYS4864:CLOSE5"
-
-
- makes the F2 key open the channel to
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- the modem and enter the terminal
-
- driver. Pressing the Commodore logo
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- key and the "M" key together closes
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- the channel to the modem.
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- MINITERM 128 has two ways to return
-
- to BASIC. Pressing the Commodore logo
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- key and the "M" key at same time
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- returns to the next command in your
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- own BASIC program. Pressing the
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- Commodore logo key and the English
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- pound key at the same time places a
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- $FF in location $0088, allowing you
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- to branch to a different part of your
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- program.
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- MINITERM 128 has a small menu that
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- allows you to exit to BASIC, to a help
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- screen, or choose whether output goes
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- out in standard or Commodore ASCII.
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- Since line noise sometimes affects the
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- color of the cursor, the program's
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- author has also included code that
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- will return the cursor to its correct
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- color if this occurs.
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- To use this program, BLOAD MINITERM
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- 128, assign KEY2 as previously
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- described and press F2. Whenever you
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- open the channel to the modem from
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- your own program, make sure you use a
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- 5 as the channel number.
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- OPEN 5,2,2,CHR$(6)+CHR$(0) is the
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- proper syntax for the OPEN statement
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- in your BASIC program.
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- DISK FILES THIS PROGRAM USES:
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- MINITERM 128
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