* From: Nick Rossi * Subject: Novaterm & source freely available Hi all, I just wanted everyone to know that I'm no longer developing or supporting Novaterm. This is probably not a surprise as I've been out of touch for a while!I've made Novaterm 9.6, the last beta version of Novaterm 10, and all source code freely available on my FTP site: ftp://ftp.exitlight.com/Novaterm/ All software and source code can be freely copied and distributed. I want to thank everyone for their support over the years. I've appreciated all the positive feedback and suggestions. It's always a pleasure to work on a product that people find useful - especially when you've worked for companies whose products were never used by anyone! Currently my day job is as a software development lead for Loudeye Technologies [NASDAQ:LOUD] (http://www.loudeye.com/), a company that does high-volume encoding of video and audio for Internet streaming. The development work is all Java server-side enterprise applications. I also have a video production business, where we've done everything from TV and radio commercials to comedy and extreme sports video. A lot of our work is up on our site at http://www.exitlight.com/ (video is best viewed over a broadband connection of course). As you can imagine, both of these things keep me very busy, which is why I have not been supporting Novaterm. Here is how I last left development of Novaterm 10: It has a fully functional TCP/IP stack using SLIP (though not without bugs), a Telnet application, and the beginnings of an FTP module. I completely rewrote everything in 100% assembly. Most of the original features from version 9.6 are ported (phone book, buffer, multiple devices, etc.) Every module (except for the bootstrapper) is written as dynamically relocatable code, assembled with a special assembler that I wrote for the purpose of generating relocation data along with the code itself. The special assembler is written in C++ and also supports 6502 extended opcodes and the 65816 instruction set (i.e. it can assemble native code for the SuperCPU). All of the source code for version 10, version 9.6, and the assembler is in one big tgz (tar-gzip) file. It's meant to be unpacked on a Linux system, which is where I did all the development. The source is freely available for any use; copy it, plagiarize it, study it, learn from it. I won't have time to answer detailed questions about it (in fact I remember very little about it), but I believe it will still have value nonetheless. Soon I'll be offering my Commodore equipment for sale. I've accumulated a few goodies over time that I used in development which should be nice additions to a collection. Nick Rossi Exit Light Productions http://www.exitlight.com/