Month: February 2007

Get Your HyperTerminal Back

Get Your HyperTerminal Back

If you switched to Vista and you tend to hack anything with a serial interface, you probably noticed that HyperTerminal has been removed from the Windows operating system. Only a minor setback: Hilgraeve, makers of HyperTerminal, offer a free (for private use) edition of their product that works just like the HyperTerminal you have come […]

Hands-on with the AtariLab Kit

Hands-on with the AtariLab Kit

AtariLab is a sensor kit for the 8-bit Atari computers. I ordered two of the kits recently, the starter kit and the light kit, and they both arrived in pristine condition. They work great with the Atari 130XE, but the light sensor was giving me some random readings (replacing the photoresistor in that wouldn’t be […]