Subj : BBS on a phone
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Nov 18 2020 08:39:07

Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/18/20 8:59 AM you wrote:

 AA> But how practical can it be in the long run?  I mean.. if it   
 AA> still requires pressing the arrow keys to navigate?  Sure,   many 
 AA> interfaces double with hot-keys, but how does this   actually 
 AA> look? Is the whole menu of key options on one screen?   How does 
 AA> an 80char wide presentation of the bbs interface   render on a 
 AA> smarphone for the user (or is it a different menu   design)?

Easily as practical as any other device.

I've never really manuevered with Arrow keys on BBSes, I prefer the menu keys, be it a numbered menu or what have you.

The entire menu is on the screen. At this point, he's running a basic Mystic, no real fancy ANSI yet.

It's apparently scaled well. My telnet terminal (Termius) Shows it fine.  I don't have a good  ANSI terminal that I can get to work consitantly yet, so I can't judge on that account. But as I said, he doesn't have much ANSI there that I can tell.
 
 AA> How 'bout some screenshots?  :)

As far as screenshots go, as soon as I remember what password I have on there, and I get the ok from the sysop, I'll be glad to.
 

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