Secure KoalaTerm 1.0 Beta

Midasoft presents another quality product for more secure Internet connectivity: Secure KoalaTerm is now in its public beta phase.

For more information about Secure KoalaTerm, click here.

What's New in Version 3.2

  • Blinking Characters: now KoalaTerm supports real blinking characters, it's now easier to get noticed.
  • DBCS Support: Good news for DBCS system users like Chinese and Japanese. Now you can enable "DBCS" support in "International" page of settings dialog, also make sure your Primary Character Set is set to "ISO Latin-1". Then you will be able to view double byte characters.
  • New printing feature: Now transparent printing supports output directly to printer ports. You can use this new feature by setting the "Print To" option in "Print" page of KoalaTerm Settings dialog.
  • Save everything: Sometimes the host application erase terminal screen before new output, and KoalaTerm used to discard those erased text and not put into history (scroll-back) buffer. Now, with "Save Everything" option enabled in "Terminal" page of KoalaTerm Settings dialog, you can view evreything in the history buffer after they got erased.
  • File transfer! Finally KoalaTerm has ZModem support. Like all other KoalaTerm good features, it's very easy to use. Just run your favorite ZModem program on your host, and start transfering! When you use Secure KoalaTerm, the file transfer will be secured! Moving your sensitive stuff around has never been so easy! Click here to see how!

    What's New in Version 3.1

    1. Version 3.1: Now bitmap fonts are accepted as well as TrueType fonts.

    2. Version 3.11: Use -E option in the command line, you will be able to edit the session file without actually connecting to the host.

    3. Version 3.11: Be able to handle URL style command line issued by web browsers.

    4. Version 3.11: A new template added for easy connecting to 123 Terminal Server for Windows 95/98 (another quality product from Midasoft Co.)

    5. Version 3.12: Windows position will be restored when connected with a session file.

    6. Version 3.12: International characters are able to be captured into files.

    7. Version 3.13: Added mouse support to Linux OS. You can enable this feature in "Terminal" page of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog.

    8. Version 3.14: Better support to auto-sizing the font according to both height and width of the terminal screen.

    What's New in Version 3.0

    1. Improved transparent printing (printer-controller mode). You can redirect the print out to Windows printer handling if your host isn't control the print out. In this way you'll be able to change the font used for print out.

    2. New Chat-Line input mode. You can select "Chat Line" from "View" menu to show or hide the chat line input box. With chat line, you can input more efficiently especially with a slow link. Your input will stay on local buffer until you press <ENTER> key.

    3. New 132 column font support. You are able to specify a different font for 132 column mode. To enable the different font, uncheck the "Same as 80 Cols" option in "Display" tab of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog. When you register KoalaTerm with us, you can get 5 new TrueType fonts free from Midasoft (contact sales@midasoft.com). Among them you'll find some font suitable for your 132 column applications.

    4. New KoalaScript: powerful scripting language for automating and customizing KoalaTerm in many aspects. For more information, visit Introduction to KoalaScript.

    5. Improved button palette: now up to 32 buttons (arranged in 4 pages) can be defined. And the button palette will automatically sized according to the frame window size. To show/hide the button palette, select "Button Palette" from "View" menu.

    6. New session title display: defaultly the host name will be shown at the beginning of the main window caption (so you'll see the host name in the Windows task bar instead of always "KoalaTerm Version ..."). You can also specify your own session title in the "General" tab of "KoalaTerm Settings" dialog.

    7. New session file format. KoalaTerm 3.0 has a totally redesigned format for session files. This new format will ensure compatibility backward as well as foreward. KoalaTerm 3.0 will NOT accept session files generated by previous versions of KoalaTerm. A converter utility, mktfile.exe, has been released along with KoalaTerm 3.0 package.