neufuse Veteran Posted May 16, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 16, 2014 Yes, hyper terminal that old app from Windows 95 and up... Some of us still use serial ports to communicate to serial consoles on. Anyone have a good free alternative that works on windows 7 x64 and supports serial communication of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Yes, hyper terminal that old app from Windows 95 and up... Some of us still use serial ports to communicate to serial consoles on. Anyone have a good free alternative that works on windows 7 x64 and supports serial communication of course Putty...great/free app http://www.putty.org/ You can also copy the hyperterminal program/files from an older WinOS and it will work on Win7. http://h0w2.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-enable-hyper-terminal-in-windows.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted May 16, 2014 Author Veteran Share Posted May 16, 2014 Forgot about putty, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I use putty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Putty gets my vote too. Only problem is you can't do advanced things like send files over x-modem, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted May 16, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 16, 2014 putty. it is the number 1 go to for things like this. Supports ssh, serial, telnet, rlogin and raw. was having issues with windows 8 but I think that was the usb to serial cable more than putty. There are putty alternatives....http://alternativeto.net/software/putty/ also a good tftp service for windows computers: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ for those times you need to update firmware, or backup configs. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Putty gets my vote too. Only problem is you can't do advanced things like send files over x-modem, etc. There's a couple of forks that support X/Y/Z modem, along with a few other toys that the original doesn't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted May 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 16, 2014 As others have said putty all the way, never had any problems with it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaded Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Currently using kitty + mRemteNG (both free) and its doing the trick so far for me. Just needs a slight bit of configuration but nothing too complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted May 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 16, 2014 ^ I am also a fan of the kitty fork.. have to check out this mRemteNG ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Putty gets my vote too. Only problem is you can't do advanced things like send files over x-modem, etc. There's also SyncTerm (which does some things PuTTy does not - like support Zmodem and uploads over telnet). I would love to find a BBS that supported the Fidonet message boards that you could telnet into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I would love to find a BBS that supported the Fidonet message boards that you could telnet into. The SynchroNet BBS software does that, by the same authors who do SyncTerm. Supports http, telnet, ssh, rlogin, has mail and news servers, the usual BBS bells and whistles (Fido included), etc etc, quite loaded. You can hit the author's site at bbs.synchro.net using your choice of protocol, web or terminal, or just synchro.net if you're curious about the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted May 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 16, 2014 Fido is still around?? Really?? I might have to check that out!! Are bbs games still around as well barren realms elite use to be my fav! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Fido is still around?? Really?? I might have to check that out!! Are bbs games still around as well barren realms elite use to be my fav! ;) It does doors too sure, BRE included.. obviously old MSDOS based games will be rather problematic, especially if you have an x64 OS. Will need an x86 based OS to run those. Gah haven't played that one in forever. http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:bre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted May 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 16, 2014 Yeah I saw that -- I am thinking I might have to fire a bbs up on one of my vps.. I think we could have a neowin bbs, and gets some BRE going, and trade wars, and there a few other fun ones.. Max Norris 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Not a serious recommendation. But I really miss this one: goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted May 17, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 17, 2014 Well going to have to spend some play time with this -- but it runs on my vps running ubuntu ;) I got telnet into it, but going to have to do some reading and figure out how to get games working, etc.. Oh it brings back memories ;) Shadrack 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted May 17, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hello,A few options: Ayera - TeraTerm Pro EmTec - ZOC Hilgraeve - HyperTerminal / HyperACCESS Mobatek - Mobaxterm (not sure if serial supported) open source - KiTTy (fork of PuTTY) open source - MinTTY (fork of PuTTY) open source - mRemoteNG (not sure if serial supported) open source - PuTTY open source - SyncTERM open source - Tera Term Softronics - Softerm (no longer available?) Turbosoft - TTWin VanDyke - SecureCRT Also, check out programs like Console, PowerCMD and Take Command for alternate Windows command console to run text mode terminal programs under.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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