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> First off, for 99% of us in the universe nowadays, C64Term for the PC
> (as suggested on the website) simply won't work.  Pretty much every
> computer sold in the last 10 years is equipped with a Winmodem, and
> real "hardware" modems have been impossible to find for the last 5.

Of all the places I would hope people wouldn't be stuck with only the
latest Wintel trash (and yes, I consider a computers such as you
describe "trash")...

...but I suppose we can't all be that lucky.

> I personally don't know of a better solution, other than to use a C64
> emulator and bind to whatever modem people have.  I don't know what
> the answer is, but hopefully somebody can figure out a
> Windows-compatible solution.

VMware running a real OS, presenting the winmodem as an ordinary serial
port (of whatever type it deos for serial ports)?

I know someone who does that for, IIRC, video - his laptop's video (or
whatever it is) isn't understood by his OS of choice (a Unix variant,
don't recall which one), so he runs Windows and VMware, with *nothing*
else running directly under Windows; everything "real" runs on the
VMware emulated machine.

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