![]() ![]() ![]() I have found that the best "BBS Calling" terminal program for the Mac is exactly what RumorzGuy said, Syncterm. I run a BBS off of my Amiga 1200 () but use an intel iMac as my primary system. It is sad how few applications there are for calling BBS's, and probably even sadder how few bbs's there are left out there. Luit's manual page can be found here, or 'man luit' if you have X11 installed on your Mac it comes in X11 by default. It'll be slower than a straight Cocoa solution, and require a little more technical jiggery-pokery, but the price is definitely lower than MacWise. If you have the X11 package for OS X installed and need a freer alternative, luit should be sufficient to enable what you want in an ANSI-enabled X11 Terminal. I /do/ also play door games (gimme my TradeWars 2002, darnit!), but I've always just used MacWise. It does what it's designed for, and door games ain't that. In short, the requirements for a MUD/MUSH/MUCK client to be useful are vastly different than those for a terminal client to be useful for playing BBS door games! I'm the author of the aforementioned Atlantis I can honestly say I've never even considered using it for door games. Door games not only send old-style IBM Extended ASCII (line-drawing characters and suchnot) where most Mac terminal applications are Unicode, but also in many cases will send ANSI cursor movement sequences (which many MUD/MUSH clients neither support, nor need to). MUD/MUSH type games send things like ANSI color, MCP extended sequences (which allow passing out-of-band data to plugins), MXP sequences (basically, HTML over telnet), etc. Where “” is either a domain name (example – ) or a number (example – 127.0.0.Tintin++, TinyFugue, Savitar, Mudwalker and Atlantis are all designed specifically for MUD/MUSH/MUCK/MOO/etc. Once the Telnet client is installed, open up a Terminal window. Run the appropriate “yum” command to install the Telnet client for your particular Linux distribution. Telnet 127.0.0.1 Linux, Mac OS X and other Unixįor Linux – Some Linux distributions do not have the Telnet Client installed. Where “” is either a domain name (example – ) or a number (example – 127.0.0.1) Once that is turned on, you can either open up a Command Prompt, or run the Telnet command from the Run menu. You will need to “turn on” the Telnet Client first. Windowsīy default, Windows does not install the Telnet Client in Windows anymore. Though this will work, the graphics may or may not display correctly. You can also use the command line from your operating system. There are other Telnet clients will work, but they are not free: SyncTerm (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.) Instead, we suggest any of the following free Telnet Client programs for your operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) Telnet Client Programs While most operating systems have a built-in Telnet Client, we do not recommend these as they do not display the graphics correctly. Accessing BBS systems via the Internet also requires a terminal program called a Telnet Client. This meant you used a “terminal program” to access these BBS systems. Traditional BBS systems that were “dial-up” based were accessed by dialing them directly with your analog telephone modem. If you are new to the process of Telnet and have never accessed a Telnet BBS system before, the following is a mini-tutorial of how the Telnet process works and how to use a Telnet client.īulletin Board Systems (BBS) have been around long before the Internet. ![]()
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