RE: https://mastodon.online/@armbytes/115559521470811872
A huge shout-out to everyone who made it. The next "Coding on RISC OS" fireside chat is pencilled in for 10th January 2026. 🚀🕹️🛸 #Code4fun #ARM #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #RISCOS #Zoom #Meetup #Discord
I haven't felt satisfied with any of the current BBS client software that I could use on my MacOS. Even though I adore #icy_tools it's not there yet in core features I'm looking after.
So.. I just created a telnet client focused on the core BBS supporting features and it works. renders fine in CP-437 and UTF and ASCII as #tui app for macos terminals.
That works smoothly after a single day of development!
Next milestone is to enforce 80x25 rendering and x/y/zmodem functionality with file browsers and batch upload/download features.
When that's done I'll only be thinking about expanding to SSH connection and... scripting platform so I can automatize ze thingz and record macros. and extend UI by my own scripts.
Should be nice to create something like old fashioned MUD interfaces for various text mode games BBSes offer as an aide/cheat perhaps... who knows.
Having the whole terminal client under control brings interesting possibilities to the whole concept.
I was just a consumer of BBSes.. now I'm becoming a client experience hacker! Ha!
Whole thing not yet ready to be published but as I did with `tunerider` this one eventually becomes public as well.
A massive shout-out to everyone who made it.
The next meet-up is pencilled in for the 22nd November. #Code4Fun #RISCOS #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers
Andrew
hollow-one