[GreenKeys] RTTY Art - Soiftware Capture Program

[William Bytheway]

It's been several years since I wrote a Microsoft Windows application
that allows one to capture RTTY Art from an RS-232 connection.  Flexibility
was built in so that data input could be via a modern TNC (like a PK232)
using ASCII or via BAUDOT using a 60ma current-loop to RS-232 interface
(like my Hal ST-6).

The RTTY Art program provided it's own graphical display that supported
overstrike and carriage returns without auto-line feeds.  Check it out,
it's still at:

    http://www.rtty.com/development/software/index.html

RTTY Art can also handle broadcasts, since it sends the input file in it's
raw form without modifying the carriage returns or line feeds.  Most
terminal
programs will try to replace the CR or LF with a CR-CR-LF combination, RTTY
Art doesn't do this.  Documentation is at:

    http://www.rtty.com/development/software/RTTYArt.htm

Of course there is still the Art Gallery that runs a JAVA-based application
that lets you view RTTY Art with overstrikes.  There is also ~32 pictures
available on the web server.  Check it out:

    http://www.rtty.com/gallery/rttyart.html

I offered the program to those wishing to save these "works of art" but
never saw any products.  Maybe now is the time while some of us still have
TD's capable of reproducing RTTY Art from paper tape.  Send me the captured
files, and I'll post them on http://www.rtty.com .  If you can't do it, then
let's find a volunteer who has the equipment and is willing.  I'll volunteer
if that is what it takes.

Bill Bytheway
K7TTY
http://www.rtty.com (co-webmaster)

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