Date   : Fri, 12 Dec 1986 04:50:10 GMT
From   : Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@ROCHESTER.ARPA>
Subject: Terminal Emulator for VB3B

I know someone with an S-100 Z-80 CP/M system that includes
a Solid State Music VB3B video board.
This is a 24x80 character board driving a standard video monitor.
His BIOS has just a "glass tty" driver, i.e. it can send
characters tothe screen one after the other, and obey
CR and LF, but no other cursor positioning.

The only program he has that does full-screen stuff is Wordstar,
which has its own video board driver.

He has a modem on his system and a terminal emulation program
(MODEM7 or one of its derivatives).  Now he wants to be able
to call a host computer and do full-screen terminal emulation,
with some sort of cursor control so he can run screen editors
on the host instead of line editors.

Does anyone have a terminal emulation program I could have
(we might even pay for a commercial one) that emulates a
VT52, H19, VT100, ADM3 or anything else halfway intelligent,
using a VB3B without any CP/M BIOS support for cursor
positioning?

I have the version of KERMIT from Queen's University, written
in Turbo Pascal, that emulates a VT52.  Unfortunately, it
uses the Turbo Pascal screen-management functions.  These can be
easily patched to match any terminal, but won't work with a 
really dumb one; there has to be cursor positioning already
supported.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike Ciaraldi
seismo!rochester!ciaraldi

p.s. Why not add a driver to the BIOS?  The system is so
old it's not worth the time and trouble.  For $150
we could buy a used CRT terminal and avoid the whole problem.