Divarin
Veteran Member
I have a PET 8032 which I restored over the last year with a lot of help from members of this forum. I haven't had much chance to use it because until recently I didn't have a place to set it up.
I have a petdisk and wimodem for it. I was trying to get the wimodem going last night to do some BBSing and was using "PETTERM". There's 4 different copies of Pet Term on my petdisk memory card:
PETTERM40B, PETTERM40G, PETTERM80B, PETTERM80G
The 40/80 is obviously for 40 or 80 columns, I don't know what the B/G means.
Since my PET is an 80 column PET I tried the two 80 column versions first, the initial settings screen comes up but seems to freeze (can't change any settings or go into terminal mode)
I then tried the 40 column versions (after loading a program that puts the PET into 40 column mode) and it works but I can't get out of 300 baud and here's why:
As far as I can tell the settings screen is only shown on startup and once you get into terminal mode there's no way to get back to it. There's no way to exit the program without power-cycling the computer (unless there is and I don't know it).
I can issue the wimodem command "at*b1200" but without being able to change the terminal emulator's baud rate to match I can't issue the "at&w" command to save the new baud rate, thus a power-cycle puts the wimodem back to 300 baud.
Also, being a PET newbie, I am unaware of a way to break out of a program other than the runstop key which doesn't usually work unless it's a simple basic program I wrote myself. If this was a c64 I'd try runstop/restore but if there's a similar key combination that does a similar thing on the PET I don't know it.
So ... TLDR, 4 questions:
1) Why is PETTERM80 freezing on startup?
2) Is there a way, in PETTERM, to get back to the settings menu so that I can change the baud rate
3) Is there a way to do the equivalent of the c64's runstop/restore
4) Is there maybe a better userport terminal emulator software I can try instead?
I have a petdisk and wimodem for it. I was trying to get the wimodem going last night to do some BBSing and was using "PETTERM". There's 4 different copies of Pet Term on my petdisk memory card:
PETTERM40B, PETTERM40G, PETTERM80B, PETTERM80G
The 40/80 is obviously for 40 or 80 columns, I don't know what the B/G means.
Since my PET is an 80 column PET I tried the two 80 column versions first, the initial settings screen comes up but seems to freeze (can't change any settings or go into terminal mode)
I then tried the 40 column versions (after loading a program that puts the PET into 40 column mode) and it works but I can't get out of 300 baud and here's why:
As far as I can tell the settings screen is only shown on startup and once you get into terminal mode there's no way to get back to it. There's no way to exit the program without power-cycling the computer (unless there is and I don't know it).
I can issue the wimodem command "at*b1200" but without being able to change the terminal emulator's baud rate to match I can't issue the "at&w" command to save the new baud rate, thus a power-cycle puts the wimodem back to 300 baud.
Also, being a PET newbie, I am unaware of a way to break out of a program other than the runstop key which doesn't usually work unless it's a simple basic program I wrote myself. If this was a c64 I'd try runstop/restore but if there's a similar key combination that does a similar thing on the PET I don't know it.
So ... TLDR, 4 questions:
1) Why is PETTERM80 freezing on startup?
2) Is there a way, in PETTERM, to get back to the settings menu so that I can change the baud rate
3) Is there a way to do the equivalent of the c64's runstop/restore
4) Is there maybe a better userport terminal emulator software I can try instead?
