Remote Terminal Driver Software

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From: Peter-Frank Spierenburg
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:41

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Greetings,

I remember long ago, when I was trying to setup a BBS on my Coco a piece 
of assembly code called a remote terminal driver. When the driver is 
installed, the Coco accepts input from the bitbanger port as if it was 
the keyboard and all output is sent both to the screen and the 
bitbanger. I seem to recall that the driver would masquerade as the 
normal keyboard and screen routines so that all calls that would 
ordinarily go to the original routines would go to the driver instead, 
and then the driver would call the original routines after it had done 
its thing. Does anyone recall such software, and does anyone know how 
the masquerade was accomplished? I'd like to write my own terminal driver.

Peter.

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