[GreenKeys] HeavyMetal v3.0.001 released (finally)

[Bill Buzbee]

I'd like to add my thanks to Javier for taking over active HeavyMetal
development.  It's been almost 10 years since I first started writing the
program, and over that time it accumulated a lot of cruft.  Javier has done
a great job of cleaning the program up, rewriting the ugly parts and adding
a set of great new features.

I'll maintain a copy of my last HeavyMetal release (v2.6) here:
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/hm_2_6.zip, and encourage everyone to try out
Javier's new version.

Thanks again to Javier,
...Bill Buzbee

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Javier Albinarrate (LU8AJA-TTY) <
tty at lu8aja.com.ar> wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
>        It has been a few months since I mentioned this but I had no chance
> to finish things neat enough to work out of the box in Windows XP with an
> exe instead of a whole perl environment.
>
>        Finally yesterday I got my hands into a desktop PC with Windows XP
> and a serial port , I had this thing working for months in an old Win98
> laptop with serial port, the one I regularly use for TTY. So.. I got all
> the
> bits working together and tested... the creature is alive.
>
>
> http://www.albinarrate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:heavymetal
>
>        The first time you run heavymetal.exe it will unpack all the
> required perl stuff... so it will take a minute without any indication of
> what it is doing.. subsequent times, it will not need to do that.
>
>        There are lots of commands and configs. Commands and special chars
> use the $ prefix.
>        Start by giving a look to $HELP :)
>
>        $CONFIGS
>            will search the configs
>        $CONFIG name value
>            will set a config
>
>        This version includes support for Telnet sessions IN and OUT, with
> the idea of connecting TTYs over internet
>        And it also includes MSN support, not only allowing you to chat with
> MSN over the TTY, but ALSO, to establish sessions and control the software
> and the TTY remotely over MSN.
>
>        And one more thing... funnily enough, you can test things without
> the TTY installed, with just your PC modem if you have one, and issue AT
> commands.. like ATZ or ATI6, etc
>        And... now that I am writting of this... I have just realized that
> the new HeavyMetal would be perfectly expandable to use your modem to
> connect your TTY over the phone line. I guess I will do that in the next
> version of it.
>
>
>        Ok guys... I will need feeback, particullarly because serial ports
> (mainly USB based ports) can be wild...
>
>        Source code is attached in the zip as well, and I have created a
> project in Github, I will upload a snapshot today.
>
>        If anybody is willing to make tests, just email me :)
>
>        REGARDS!!
>
> Javier Albinarrate
> LU8AJA
>
> PS: For those of you who sent me samples of historical news wires and so
> one, in the next subversion I will add a menu with a listing of historical
> TTY wires, which will be open to contributions.
>
>
>
>
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