Remote Terminal

Remote Terminal is an SSH and Telnet Terminal Emulator for Windows 8 and Windows RT which will be available through the Windows Store soon.

Its development started a short time after Windows 8 was released to the general public and while there was still no other SSH or Telnet client available in the Windows Store.

I am regularily using SSH clients both at home and at work, mostly putty on my Windows PCs and vSSH on my iPhone, and with the planned purchase of a Windows RT tablet I missed the possibility to use it for the same purpose. With a background in Windows and .NET programming I decided to write my own SSH client for this platform.

The following features will be available in the first release:
• Telnet protocol
• SSH-2 protocol with password, keyboard-interactive and private key authentication
• virtual terminal supporting the most important ANSI/VT100 escape sequences
• support for every possible screen resolution as well as portrait and snapped view, each with and without the on-screen virtual keyboard

Additionally, I am planning the following features for future releases:
• better terminal emulation
• enhanced performance (much room for improvement)
• configurable font size
• full-screen mode
• multiple simultaneous open connections
• proxy support and possibility for SSH connection tunnelling
• better usability when using only the on-screen virtual keyboard

I am thankful for every comment, bug report or feature request and will try to provide as much support through this blog or via e-mail as possible.