02-23-2022, 04:36 PM
Ah, I found the "pet term usage" at their git repo - it has the instructions for how to set the baud rate while in the terminal mode. English text quickly consumes a lot of memory, so it's no surprise "ancient software" rarely included built-in help (plus the term is loadable from tape and doesn't try to pull in anything extra from disk drive, so can't relay any help that might be on a disk).
The pet-term stock commands are:
- Clr/Home opens up the PETTERM menu for changing baudrate and character set modes
- Inst/Del is a backspace key
These are near the top of the number pad on the "large keyboard" PET.
So, everything working really great! 300baud is really painful (over 20 seconds to get a full screen of text message), but at 2400 baud that drops to about 3 seconds to receive a full 40x25 screen of text.
The only thing I really wish was: after doing ATDT, the WiModem had a speaker to simulate dialing a number and the carriage connect - it'd be completely fake, and just randomize a number to play in the audio (even if typing an alphanumeric address). But it would be a cute reminder of those days.
Thanks for the reminder of AT&W, will give it a shot!
The pet-term stock commands are:
- Clr/Home opens up the PETTERM menu for changing baudrate and character set modes
- Inst/Del is a backspace key
These are near the top of the number pad on the "large keyboard" PET.
So, everything working really great! 300baud is really painful (over 20 seconds to get a full screen of text message), but at 2400 baud that drops to about 3 seconds to receive a full 40x25 screen of text.
The only thing I really wish was: after doing ATDT, the WiModem had a speaker to simulate dialing a number and the carriage connect - it'd be completely fake, and just randomize a number to play in the audio (even if typing an alphanumeric address). But it would be a cute reminder of those days.
Thanks for the reminder of AT&W, will give it a shot!