[GreenKeys] TTYSIM for secret project

[David Ross]

Jim & the gang -

   TTYSIM will run under XP in a Command Window (DOS window).
   TTYSIM will do both Baudot and ASCII, at all the common 'machinery' 
Baud rates.

   I wrote TTYSIM in 1990 or so, back in the DOS 3.1 days, it is pretty 
amazing that it does so well 20+ years later.  When you run TTYSIM in 
the Command Window, you can set up various parameters to suit your own 
taste, like text color, background color, font type & size, window 
position, etc.  (As yet, I have not found a way to make TTYSIM use the 
nice Model 28 'teleprinter' font, but if you fuss with it you can set it 
up to look like the dreaded purple ink on canary paper...).

   The software that I used to write TTYSIM is Microsoft Macro 
Assembler, which, last I looked, was given away free with the Microsoft 
XP System Developer Kit.  I think that I can give away copies of MASM & 
LINK with a clear conscience, if you would like to come up with your own 
version of TTYSIM.

   Find TTYSIM here:
<http://www.hypertools.com/>
   Look toward the bottom of the page, "Download TTYSIM.ZIP"

73, good luck
Dave Ross    N7EPI



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On 3/5/2013 7:33 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, gil at baudot.net wrote:
>
>> Dave Ross, old fellow -- how are you?  I was thinking of you just 
>> yesterday,
>> as I fired up your TTYSIM program for some testing.  Yeah, even 
>> though it's
>> a dos program and only works on com1, it works just dandy in a command
>> window on my old xp laptop that has a built-in serial port.
>
> Hmmm - nobody mentioned ttysim recently when I was asking about a program
> to turn a laptop into a portable TTY.  I've been using rtty12g for the
> purpose.  Haven't tried ttysim yet, probably no better or worse.
>
> If I only knew how to tell Windows that I want 5-bit characters one of
> these would run under Windows instead of DOS.