Get Your HyperTerminal Back

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By Brian Jepson
Posted 2007/02/05 @ 11:34 am
Category Electronics

If you switched to Vista and you tend to hack anything with a serial interface, you probably noticed that HyperTerminal has been removed from the Windows operating system. Only a minor setback: Hilgraeve, makers of HyperTerminal, offer a free (for private use) edition of their product that works just like the HyperTerminal you have come to rely on. Now you can get your serial comms on again! Link

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5 Responses to Get Your HyperTerminal Back

jher on February 5th, 2007 at 1:17 pm said:

the newest version of putty now supports serial connections:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

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somerandomguy on December 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am said:

just found this article but it seems they no longer offer this free version, or they are hiding it extremely well on their site. I’m using PuTTY now instead as they recently added serial connection cabability. It’s free here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

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n5pgo on December 20th, 2007 at 8:25 am said:

Hilgreave in NOT FREE!

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Brian Jepson on December 20th, 2007 at 8:30 am said:

n5pgo, I’m sorry to hear that they removed the free version. But as somerandomguy said, PuTTY is free, and it now supports serial connections. I’ve been using it for a while now myself, and I don’t use HyperTerminal any more.

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unicodemaster787 on February 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm said:

Free HyperTerminal Personal Edition is not gone from Hilgraeve. They simply “orphaned” the download page so as to confuse people and wrongfully force them to buy their Business Edition. Here it is:

http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html

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