• BBS Terminal Apps

    From Joe Etten to All on Fri May 7 05:33:29 2010
    Hey all, I'm new to linux, not so new to BBSing. In any case, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and have noticed a bunch of apps available for telnetting to a BBS. However, upon installation and connecting to my favorite BBSes I noticed that the blocks that would normally make up an ANSI image are some form of asian character. I've really only tried qTerm so far. I was wondering if there was a better app to look at, or if anyone had any idea what I need to do to
    get ANSI to display correctly in qTerm.

    Secondly, I noticed that there were a few BBS softwares out there that run under linux now, not to mention running under wine. Are any of them fairly
    well developed, or are they still in their infancy?

    Third, are there any apps out there that exist in the linux world to do ANSI painting?

    Thanks,

    Tharkis
  • From Scott Brown@1:261/220 to Joe Etten on Fri May 7 12:22:10 2010
    Hi Joe,

    Hey all, I'm new to linux, not so new to BBSing. In any case, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and have noticed a bunch of apps available for telnetting to BBS. However, upon installation and connecting to my favorite BBSes I noti that the blocks that would normally make up an ANSI image are some form of asian character. I've really only tried qTerm so far. I was wondering if t was a better app to look at, or if anyone had any idea what I need to do t get ANSI to display correctly in qTerm.

    Not sure how to get qTerm to display correctly, but there is a version of syncterm for linux that works good.

    Secondly, I noticed that there were a few BBS softwares out there that run under linux now, not to mention running under wine. Are any of them fairly well developed, or are they still in their infancy?

    Not sure, never tried any.

    Third, are there any apps out there that exist in the linux world to do AN painting?

    Haven't looked for any. :)

    Scott....

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/119 to Joe Etten on Fri May 7 19:11:27 2010
    Hello Joe!

    Friday May 07 2010 05:33, Joe Etten wrote to All:

    Hey all, I'm new to linux, not so new to BBSing. In any case, I'm
    running Ubuntu 10.04 and have noticed a bunch of apps available for telnetting to a BBS. However, upon installation and connecting to my favorite BBSes I noticed that the blocks that would normally make up
    an ANSI image are some form of asian character. I've really only tried qTerm so far. I was wondering if there was a better app to look at, or
    if anyone had any idea what I need to do to get ANSI to display
    correctly in qTerm.

    SyncTerm (download from syncterm.bbsdev.net IIRC) does about the best job of displaying IBM PC characters of any of the available terminals. It is available for both Win32 and Linux platforms.


    Secondly, I noticed that there were a few BBS softwares out there that
    run under linux now, not to mention running under wine. Are any of
    them fairly well developed, or are they still in their infancy?

    MBSE (which I use on my Linux laptop) is very well developed. Synchronet for Linux works well too. Both require use of dosemu to use DOS door programs.


    Third, are there any apps out there that exist in the linux world to
    do ANSI painting?

    Google for TetraDraw; it can do almost anything that you could do in the old DOS TheDraw.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Joe Etten on Mon May 24 12:19:06 2010
    Joe Etten wrote to All:

    under linux now, not to mention running under wine. Are any of them fairly

    Yeah, I run MBSE under CentOS 5.5 (64 bit) and it runs very nicely. I
    am quite pleased with it.


    Greetings, Robert Wolfe

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  • From Dan Giese to Joe Etten on Fri Jun 4 20:25:00 2010
    Hey all, I'm new to linux, not so new to BBSing. In any case, I'm
    running Ubuntu 10.04 and have noticed a bunch of apps available for telnetting to a BBS. However, upon installation and connecting to my

    I recommend Syncterm (http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/). One executable file does it all.
    For QWK reader, Multimail.


    Third, are there any apps out there that exist in the linux world to do ANSI painting?

    Not to sure on that. TheDraw should work in DOSemu.

    Dan

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