[GreenKeys] HeavyMetal v3.0.001 released (finally)

[Javier Albinarrate (LU8AJA-TTY)]

Tons of thanks to YOU Bill! 

for solving all the hard problems long time ago, otherwise when I got my first teletype I would not have had anything to test it out of the box, so full of cool features to leave all the ones I show the thing working, with the mouth open, starting from my 10 yr old niece :)

The idea is now to have everything tidy and expandable so we can keep adding features, the next thing in my ToDo list is to start writting some sort of a manual, so others get right into it easily.

Regards!!

Javier Albinarrate
LU8AJA

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Buzbee 
  To: Javier Albinarrate (LU8AJA-TTY) 
  Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 4:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] HeavyMetal v3.0.001 released (finally)


  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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