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  Re: Re: CBM64 Viewdata software
  By: Ignacio Duarte to Nigel Reed on Mon Apr 18 2022 10:09:52

 > You may be talking about Vidotex by Handic Software AB from 1984.

Not heard of that during my research.

 > https://i.imgur.com/YJrMrDu.png

But that seems to be exactly what I am looking for.

 > I uploaded it here.  I do not know how to use it.

Thanks. I will grab it later. I'll be running tcpser on my PC along with
WinVice. This should let me direct a serial port to a the tcp/ip port that
tcpser is listening on.

You can then use AT commands to dial a hostname.

atdtendofthelinebbs.com:6502

tcpser will then deal with the communications and then hand it back to WinVice.

If you're not aware, WinVice is a CBM64 emulator.

 > You may also be interested, if you are not already aware, in modern Videotex
 > services with clients for modern platforms:
 >
 > https://glasstty.com/?p=1

Yes, I'm familiar with that project and have been in touch with the author a
few times. There's also ccl4 out of Hull which is still going but seems to
require its own web based java interface to access it.

 > I'm from the US and this is really the first opportunity I have had to check
 > it out since, as you indicate, this is mainly a UK thing, or, if not mainly
 > a UK thing, not a US thing.  I encourage people who have never played around
 > with Videotex to check it out as it is trivial to install and runs right
 > over the Internet.

I'm from the UK originally so grew up with it. I now live in the US and have
added a viewdata module to my BBS. It's highly experimental at the moment and
still need some work but it's slowly getting there.

Anyway, thanks for the software suggestion, I'll grab it tonight after work.

Thanks,
Nigel
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