You may need to adapt some steps to best fit your needs.ġ- Get the Fedora installed (Using VMWare image in my case) The following is a step by step list to get heavyMetal working on linux. Project homepage: HeavyMetal v3.1 in Linux I obviously took the chance to make many changes that were in the ToDo list. In 2012 I was forced to give another jump into v3.1 due to changes in the ActivePerl distribution (they dropped the Tk extension I was using), so as I had to rewrite pretty much the whole GUI into a new module (Tkx). At the same time I kept the GUI more or less as it was. You can access his webpage here, where you can get version 1.27īetween May and November 2010, I took the task of entirely rewriting the code into a more expandable codebase, while adding support for sessions and many new cool features. HeavyMetal was developed by Bill Buzbee from 2001 to 2006. One basic problem we face with TTYs is the need to feed them with suitable data, as well as the need to impress those who come home showing the top tech from the early XXth century still interacting with all the top tech of the XXIst century. We could describe HeavyMetal as a kind of chat/messaging server, with support for many protocols, and above all the ability to interact with these old steel monsters we lovely call TTYs. The software allows you to access different internet services, as well as be accessed by different types of clients. HeavyMetal is a perl based software with a Tk/Tcl based GUI, which allows your PC (be it Windows or Linux) to interact with a teleprinter (TTY) over the good old RS-232 serial port.
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