MacEmulate Information and Specifications
MacEmulate is a full-featured terminal emulator and communications software for the Macintosh. You can use your Macintosh in place of a terminal. MacEmulate allows you to access multi-user computers by turning your Mac into one of many popular terminals. Use it in place of a "dumb terminal" to establish the valuable link to your multi-user business computer. MacEmulate is very fast, easy to use, and gives you more capabilities than a real terminal. It is the best way to get the most out of your Mac and your business system. If you like using your Macintosh, you will enjoy using MacEmulate.
MacEmulate was first released in 1990. It was one of the first applications to provide a wide variety of terminal types that were not yet available for Macintosh. It runs very fast, and works on all Macs running OSX 10.2 or higher. An older version (4.0) is available for running on pre-OSX systems, which will support MacOS 7.0 thru 9.2, using a MacPlus computer or better.
The strength of MacEmulate is with its wide selection of full-featured emulations. Advanced terminal features, such as host printing to the Macintosh printer, are very robust and flexible.
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Have more questions? See the frequently asked questions about MacEmulate or contact MacWisdom Systems.
Want a brochure? You can download a MacEmulate brochure in PDF format.MacEmulate supports the following terminal types:
- Wyse 30, 50, 60
- TeleVideo 910, 912, 920, 925, 950, 955
- SCO Color Console
- DEC VT 100, 220, 320
- PC Term
- PC ANSI
- Hazeltine 1500
- ADDS Viewpoint (with Wyse enhanced mode)
- ADM 11
- Data General 200, 210, 410
MacEmulate Feature Highlights:
Supports advanced terminal characteristics:
- 80 or 132 columns, 24 or 25 lines
- Multi-page memory
- Echo & slave printing (allows redirecting to disk)
- Graphic & multinational characters
- Programmable function keys and "soft" keys
- Pull-down menu for function keys and terminal keys
- Status line, label line, and function key labels
- Display attributes (reverse, underline, dim, etc.)
- Baud rates up to 57,600
Includes many convenient features:
- Supports Apple's Communications Toolbox:
- File transfers
- Network TCP/IP telnet connections
- Connect thru serial port cards adn modems
- Ability to run multiple sessions simultaneously
- Ability to use multiple settings files
- Extensive user preferences and setup options
- Resizeable window with scroll bars
- Several font size and style choices
- Color preferences for terminal text and background
- Customizable menu bar (short menus feature)
- Dial & hangup commands for modems
- Support for modem initialization
- Save phone numbers in "Phone Book"
- Capture screen text to a Macintosh disk file:
- Capture text as received from host
- Capture entire screens at one time
- Convert spaces to tabs (tabulate)
- Filter specified characters
- Scroll back to text scrolled off the screen
- Printing features:
- Redirect printing to disk
- Specify page layout to host requirements
- Select font, size, and style or stream text to printer
- Select text from screen and copy into clipboard
- Paste clipboard text contents to host computer
- Display and edit clipboard contents
- Use mouse clicks instead of arrow keys
- Store up to 20 macros per settings file
- Create macros automatically by watching keystrokes
- Buffered keyboard (type and edit text before sending)
- Send pictures of screen to printer, file, or clipboard
- Tabulate, print, and edit text files
Other specifications:
- Prints to all Mac printers
- Support for all keyboards
- Supports ASCII character sets for many countries
- Mac OSX 10.2 or higher
- Can run under OS 9/Carbon, but older MacEmulate version is recommended for best compatibility
- Uses up less than 1.8MB of RAM
Specifications for older version (4.0), to be used with older pre-OSX computers:
- Prints to all Mac printers
- Support for all keyboards, including Mac Plus
- Supports ASCII character sets for many countries
- Requires MacPlus computer or higher
- Requires only 475K of RAM
- System 7, 8, 9
- OS X compatible, under Classic environment, but newer version is recommended