[GreenKeys] HeavyMetal teletype program on Windows NT/2K/XP

[Bob Camp]

Hi,

Has anybody gotten Heavy Metal running under Mac OS-X?

Pearl is standard on OS-X so that's not a problem. The issue is that TK 
is not a standard part of the Mac Pearl distribution. Tcl has been 
ported to Aqua (sort of) but I have not seen a reasonable port Pearl TK 
directly to Aqua.

Obviously you can run with the X11 server in transparent mode and 
things should work ok. That seems like a lot of overhead though.

Since you can do a package build on OS-X you should be able to do the 
same sort of thing for the Mac as for Windows - a native stand alone 
Aqua app.

	Take Care!
	
		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Feb 20, 2005, at 2:28 AM, <teletype at buzbee.net> wrote:

>
> A few years ago I wrote a program to control a teletype machine via a 
> serial
> port and allow it to print things off of the internet (such as weather
> reports, AP news summaries, ASCII art, etc.).  It was written in Perl 
> and
> ran on both Windows 95/98/ME and Linux.  It did not, however, work on
> Windows NT/2K/XP because of the way it directly fiddled with the 
> serial port
> hardware.
>
> Anyway, I've been intending to do a rewrite of the program for some 
> time now
> to solve that problem as well as add some new features to support Gil's
> TTYConnect.  While doing a bit of research, I stumbled across a 
> solution to
> the Win NT/2K/XP problem.  There's likely a cleaner fix out there, but
> WooHoo - HeavyMetal now runs on Windows XP!
>
> The solution came from http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm
>
> To try out HM on Windows NT/2K/XP, first download the PortTalk package 
> at:
>
> http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk22.zip
>
> Unzip porttalk22.zip and copy AllowIo.exe to c:\Windows\  (or 
> somewhere else
> in your path)
>
> Next, grab the newest version of HeavyMetal at:
>
> http://www.buzbee.net/heavymetal/HeavyMetal_1_12.zip
>
> Unzip the file and then fire off a command shell (start->run->cmd).  
> "cd" to
> the folder containing the unzipped heavymetal files.  There you'll 
> find a
> readme as well as the
> Perl source code and heavymetal.exe executable.  Unless you want to do 
> some
> customization, you can ignore the Perl source (heavymetal.pl).  To run 
> it,
> type:
>
> allowio heavymetal.exe /a
>
> If all goes well, HeavyMetal should pop up in 30 seconds or so (it 
> takes a
> while to initialize).
>
> I did a bit of cleanup on this version.  The AP news summary and AP 
> Today in
> History are working again, and I've added links to all of the great 
> ASCII
> art files recently added at rtty.com.  I also put in a new menu item 
> for
> weather reports.  It's a bit ugly, but you can select any of the city
> weather reports produced by noaa.
>
> In other cleanup news, I elminated the requirement that you install 
> the lynx
> text browser to get the AP news.  And finally, I deleted a bunch of 
> commands
> dealing with email and web browsing that I don't think anyone 
> (including
> myself) has ever used.
>
> Let me know if you have any problems, or suggestions for the TTYConnect
> version.
>
> Bill Buzbee
> bill at homebrewcpu.com
>
>
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