[GreenKeys] Speed Converters

[W8MAQ at aol.com]

Bill and all,
 
Is  there any possibility of an incarnation of HeavyMetal that will  run on a 
computer with a modern operating system? No offense intended, but I  don't 
know how to install a PERL environment on my XP or Win2K systems, and I'd  try 
to avoid running Win95 which the Windows executable requires.
 
I'd love to experiment with and enjoy HeavyMetal and its features, but  when 
I contemplate getting it up and running, I always run into the operating  
system hurdle.
 
Thank you all for your good works and support TTY machines.
 
73's
Jim Young W8MAQ
 

Andreas,
I'm not sure if it will be of any use to you,  but I'm currently finishing
up an enhancement to HeavyMetal which will  allow control and connection via
TCP ports.  The main use was to  support a scenerio in which you've got a PC
(with possibly multiple serial  ports) with one or more instances of
HeavyMetal running, each one  controlling a teletype machine via a serial
port.  Each of those  instances of HeavyMetal would then be listening on a
port for incoming  connections.
In this model, you could then communicate with  one of your teletype
machines remotely via a telnet client, or even another  instance of
HeavyMetal, on a remote computer.  This doesn't completely  solve the problem
of newer machines not having serial ports, but the idea  is that you dedicate
an old computer to manage the serial port connection  with your teletype
machine[s] and then you could use your modern computer  to remotely control
it.
If anyone is interested in helping  me test it out (and suggest features),
let me know. 
...Bill  Buzbee