ATASCII on Unix/Linux/BSD

[jfalcon]

Greetings all,

 

Does anyone know if there is an ATASCII termcap for Unix/Linux systems? I'm interested in building a multi-user system for 8-bits or Atari Terminal Simulator users to log in, share messages, chat, etc... I would do the same with 8-bit hardware/emulators but I don't think it would work well with shared files.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Cybernoid]

I was looking for an ATASCII termcap years ago when I ran a Linux BBS on my TT030. If you find one, can you send it my way...?

 

I have a kludge that runs in PERL that pipes between 2 sockets and translates into ATASCII...

[jfalcon]

I found something close to it (google is so pimp when it comes to various file formats). Not sure if it will work 100%... now to figure out how to get it into the termcap/terminfo library....

 

Text File attached which ironically enough contains the information to get proper screen control on an Atari 8-bit. Still nothing about a true ATASCII screen but it's closer...

acsterm.txt

[bsittler]

This is far from perfect, but I have made a first attempt at a terminfo for ATASCII terminals. I built this from descriptions on Wikipedia, documentation for BobTerm, and using the Atari Terminal Simulator (ATS) running inside Wine. It has never been tested with a real Atari, so your mileage will likely vary. Please feel free to use it, comment on it, criticize it, and modify it — my hope is to eventually have a description good enough for inclusion in the master terminfo database.

 

Here's the URL where I'll put any updates:

 

http://xent.com/~bsittler/atascii.ti

 

I've also attached an automatic termcap conversion, in case the system you're connecting to does not use terminfo.

 

edit: i forgot to mention that this has also been tested using the ATASCII mode of SyncTERM, where it works somewhat

atascii.ti.txt

atascii.tc.txt

Edited June 3, 2009 by bsittler