Yep, clients already available:
6502, Z80, 6809, 6812, PDP11
Hosts already available:
Windows, RISC OS, Perl, ZXSpectrum!

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that tube over serial thing is pretty interesting!
though i would do the command interface a bit differently.

and i have made an attempt at making my own simple terminal program and then slapping some File IO functionality on it.
but it's surprisingly difficult to read from the console in Windows because it doesn't add anything to the input buffer until you press enter, which is not how i would like it to work.
one alternative would be to just use SDL for both keyboard input and text output, as that avoids having to work with the standard console.

i also thought about doing a sort of "man in the middle" thing. where the File IO program connects to the Client device while opening it's own virtual COM port, which you can then connect to via a normal Terminal program like TeraTerm, PuTTY, etc.
so the program would just pass the data between the Client and Terminal program, and when it detects an escape character from Client it would block that from going to the Terminal program, and process that itself.

that defineitly avoids the issue of implementing a whole terminal in addition to the command stuff, at the expense of making the setup a more annoying for the user to set up.
since they need to open the programs in a specific order for them to connect properly via the COM ports.

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hmm, it's definitely a more complicated project, but i feel determined enough to get atleast something working, even if it ends up being worse than Tube Serial.

Is this any help? Or maybe I misunderstood the issue. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... onsolemode