MacWise

Commercial; $95

Current Version: 4.42 (February 28, 2004) / 11.27 (May 14, 2008)

Carnation Software, Inc. produces an entire line of Macintosh terminal emulation software, including MacWise, which emulates ADDS Viewpoint, Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 370, Televideo TV 925, DEC VT100 and Prism terminals, among others. Esprit III color is also supported in Wyse 370 mode. MacWise allows a Macintosh to be used as a terminal -- connected to a host computer directly, by modem, or over the Internet. The emulators support video attributes such as dim, reverse, underline, 132-column modes, and graphic characters sent from the host computer, as well as enhanced Viewpoint mode. Features include phone list and dialer for Hayes-compatible modems, on-screen programmable function keys and more.

Version 11.0 - the latest version for Mac OS X - adds/changes the following:

• SPEED! Runs natively on Intel and PPC Macs. No more Rosetta. This was accomplished by converting the entire MacWise project from Basic to C.
• Added an option to enable or disable raw Unix mode for telnet, secure shell and the Mac Unix shell. This provides more compatibility options for connecting to host computers via the Mac Unix shell. This was always enabled for previous versions of MacWise. Turning off this option may let you log into hosts that would not respond to keystrokes.
• Added a "?" icon to several dialog boxes, which links to a "Help" pop-up, and added "Help" to many dialog box items, which appears when you hover the mouse over the text.
• Cleaned up the MacWise 11 folder by creating more folders and moving all help files inside.
• Connection Scripts... is located under the Connection Menu now instead of the File Menu.
• The standard Apple installer is now used.
• Fix - None of the document icons were working in Leopard.
• Fix - Now, the Phone icon, QuickDial icon, Fkey icon and Settings icons work.
• Fix - Print scroll back buffer was printing blank pages if you tried printing selected pages 2 to 5 or 2 to 2, etc. Same problem existed for normal printing also. If you started printing from page one you were OK, but could not start printing from any other page number.
• Fix - Mouse Click Delimiter window was returning back to emulation window when closed. Now returns back to preferences window, as it should.

Version 11.27 makes the following additional changes:

• Feature - More VT220 keys supported - Insert, Del, Home and End.
• Fix - After opening a new serial connection, the emulation window was not active until you clicked on it.
• Fix - If preferences were set to "Mouse click sends column,row to host", then clicking the mouse was sending row 11 to the host instead of the actual row.
• Fix - ESC ~a~ not working to run an Applescript under host control. You would get an error because the AppleScript folder could not be found.