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platoterm-plan9

PLATOTERM is a PLATO terminal emulator that has been ported to many platforms, as part of the IRATA.ONLINE project.

Features

  • Native Plan 9 application.
  • 24-bit color terminal support
  • PLATO touch panel mapped as mouse device
  • Uses the ASCII PLATO protocol

Missing features

  • The paint/fill function is currently stubbed, because it needs a flood fill function. (anyone want to help?)

Compiling / Installation

% mk
% mk install

Invoking platoterm

% platoterm -h <hostname> [-p <port>]

If -p is not specified, then the port is assumed to be the default ASCII port of 8005.

Upon starting, platoterm will resize the parent window to 520,520 (to accommodate the client area of 512,512), and immediately attempt the connection.

PLATO hosts

Quitting platoterm

The program stops whenever the connection is hung up, or the Quit option is selected from the right click menu.

Touch screen

The left mouse button will

PLATO Keys

The PLATO keyboard has a lot of special keys. These can be accessed via the middle and right click menus:

Right click menu keys
ANS
BACK
COPY
DATA
EDIT
FONT
HELP
LAB
MICRO
NEXT
□ (access)
STOP
SUB
SUPER
TERM
×
÷
Σ
Δ
Quit
Middle click menu keys
SHIFT-BACK (BACK1)
SHIFT-COPY (COPY1)
SHIFT-DATA (DATA1)
SHIFT-EDIT (EDIT1)
SHIFT-HELP (HELP1)
SHIFT-LAB (LAB1)
SHIFT-NEXT (NEXT1)
SHIFT-STOP (STOP1)
SHIFT-SUB (SUB1)
SHIFT-SUPER (SUPER1)

Authors

  • Thomas Cherryhomes <thom.cherryhomes at gmail.com>
  • Steve Peltz, who wrote the original pad.c state machine which became protocol.c in platoterm.

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