Qodem development update
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kevinlamonte · 2017-03-12 19:46

For the curious, qodem is nearing its final 1.0.0 release, hoping to
happen sometime between April 27 and July 4.  (I had intended to get
this done last year, but lots of things came up in my personal life
that I had a 6-month gap on all "free time" development work.)

The main changes between 1.0beta and now:

* Lots of bug fixes.  Should have far fewer (crossing fingers for
zero) crash bugs.

* Much better behavior for double-width, including double-width in X11
and Win32 versions.

* Two new emulations: PETSCII (Commodore), and ATASCII (Atari).
PETSCII also ships the C64 Pro Mono fonts.  These are minimally
tested, but they do look pretty cool.

* Lots more paper cut fixes: paste from X11/Win32 clipboard, --xterm
mode, titlebar changes like xterm/putty, more command line options,
that kind of thing.

Features are frozen, and it is undergoing final testing.  This next
release is intended to finally be the "Qmodem done right, and on
modern systems" version.  Supported platforms will be Win2k and above,
Debian stable (Jessie), Fedora 25, and generic POSIX.

Current snapshots:

* [Windows installer](http://qodem.sf.net/qodem-1.0.0-preview-
setup.exe)

* [Source tarball](http://qodem.sf.net/qodem-1.0.0.tar.gz)

[Bug reports link.](https://github.com/klamonte/qodem/issues)

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Kirkman14 · 2017-03-13 03:42

No OS X?

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kevinlamonte · 2017-03-13 11:37

Oops, forgot to mention OSX.  It does come as an app bundle with an
icon and script to load Qodem in the terminal.  You might still be
stuck with configuring the terminal to do alt/meta sends escape and
80x25 or bigger.