Mr. VI couldn't make syncterm work on Slackware 10 (yes, 10).
Besides telnet, do you know any other legacy terminals that I can use to connect to a BBS?
ltningNews from the #Floppy #Museum!
A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!
Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.
And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.
Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D
DurandalNow you can browse the contents of .zip and .lha files, and transfer individual files
Screenshots showing the ANSI mode on Syncterm
#retrobbs #c64 #syncterm #bbs #retrocomputing
Screenshots showing the ANSI mode on Syncterm
#retrobbs #c64 #syncterm #bbs #retrocomputing
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Josh RenaudDeuce recently added support for the Atari ST flavor of VT52 to his SyncTerm program.
I first requested this feature 14 years ago. I was so excited it finally happened, that I made a new VT52 animation to celebrate.
Plus I dug up six more that I have never seen published anywhere else.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/02/15/some-love-for-vt52-on-the-atari-st/
#atarist #atari #textmode #textanimation #animation #asciiart #vt52 #syncterm #textart
Some love for VT52 on the Atari ST - Break Into Chat
This Atarianβs dream has come true, though it took almost 14 years. Last week, Deuce (Stephen Hurd) released SyncTerm v1.6, which adds initial support for the Atari STβs VT52 emulation mode, as well as the three ST screen resolutions and color palettes. Today, I made a short new VT-52 text animation to celebrate: Though I [β¦]
KhronosMaking progress with the #synchronet system. Got #qwk downloads working along with #syncterm as well. Now just have to get use to how #multimail works as the mail reader.
Blake PattersonI have updated my BBSing resource page, for anyone with a hankerin' to "dial in" once again.
https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #terminal #telnet #client #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #dialup #modem #AT #retrocomputers #vintagetech #blog #screenshot #video #SyncTerm #MuffinTerm #ByteCellar
I finally got #syncterm working, and I've been poking around bbs's listed in an old copy of 2600 I had lying around. there aren't that many users, but it's like a fun little scavenger hunt, where the goal is to find more sites to connect to.
But also, how do I download things? do I need a second client?
Wintermute_BBSI am currently doing some testing with #rc2014bbs and there is something strange here:
#rcbox #BBS runs on a Z80 CP/M system ( #rc2014 ) and I am using the CP/M file transfer tool KMD.COM to #transfer #files to and from the system via #xmodem (CRC and 1K - both possible).
This seems to work as long as the client machine up- or downloading files is an #8bit machine: a RC2014 with #Qterm works, a #Commodore64 with #CCGMS works - but as soon as I try to use #Syncterm or #Qodem or any other modern #Linux #terminal #program the transfers fail with either "error in header" or, more often, with "CRC error".
How is this possible?! π€
HowToPhil (Phillip R)Video showing connecting to #mysticBBS (configured for #ASCII not #ANSI) #telnetBBS over #meshtastic (using the --tunnel option in the #CLI tool).
#SyncTerm is the BBS/Telnet client