Micheal Mar 7
Sneak peak on what I'm working on for Marchintosh this year. A modern telnet client for System 6 classic 68k macs called Flynn.

Originally started building it with Claude Code since NCSA Telnet doesn't work well with ctrl, esc, tmux and other utilities I use on unix based systems.

Started it last night and now has VT100, VT220, xterm and font support. Plan for 1.0 release will have a dark mode and a few other tweaks.

https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn

#marchintosh #macintosh #retrocomputing #telnet
Show threadByte KnightMar 7
@micheal Very cool! ANSI emulation with CP437 character set for telnet BBS's would make it even better. 😀
Show threadMicheal Mar 7
@byteknight will add it to the feature list. What's a good BBS to test with?
Show threadByte Knight
@micheal Mine, of course! 😅.
http://cqbbs.ddns.net
Captain's Quarters II BBS

Mar 7 at 12:42amWeb
Show threadMicheal Mar 7
@byteknight Oh awesome, I've visited it a few times using Blacknight, good stuff.
Show threadMicheal Mar 11
@byteknight After getting 256 color working, I managed to get ANSI CP437 in as well and it looks good. Still need to do some cleanup, but the next release on github (https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn) will have support.
Show threadtheirongiantMar 11
@micheal @byteknight - that looks bloody excellent. Which terminal font is Flynn using here?
Show threadMicheal Mar 11
@theirongiant @byteknight thank you, default font is Monaco 9, but there are a few others like Chicago, Geneva and courier availabe. I haven't tested them with ANSI-BBS yet.

I just pushed 1.9.2 that has BBS support, will run on System 7 in color and System 6 in monochrome.

https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn/releases/tag/v1.9.2
Release Flynn v1.9.2 · ecliptik/flynn

Added CP437/ANSI-BBS terminal emulation for bulletin board systems Full 256-entry CP437 lookup table mapping each byte to ASCII, Mac Roman, or QuickDraw glyph rendering cp437_mode bypasses UTF-8 ...

GitHub
Show threadByte KnightMar 11
@micheal Looks great - thanks for adding BBS support! 😍
Show threadMicheal Mar 11
@byteknight you're welcome thank you for the feature suggestion. Sorry if I overly connected the last day testing it out.

I tested The Crows Nest too and it performed just as well. Going to take some time tonight to explore both of them and play some door games.
Show threadByte KnightMar 12
@micheal NP - CQ II has 10 nodes so you're not holding anyone up!