Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : boraxman
From : Omnibrain
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 11:24:52

 bo> SZModem.  You could play tetris with someone at the other end, or chat
 bo> while the file was transferring.

I still have RIPScript on the todo list but I'm surely not going that route including games :). ZModem can be pretty fast - I got DL speed to my line limit - ~5-10MB/s I don't see much of a bottleneck there.

However I limited speed a bit for upload - I broke some BBS connections. Telnet doesn't have much overhead.

Now to Tetris - get Steam or the Epic Games store there are plenty of games out there :). If there is a real transfer protocol missing that can be used somewhere I'll put it on the todo list.

ATM I'm uncertain about the Kermit protocol - but that's the only one. Haven't seen any BBS that supports something beyond xyz & Kermit yet.

General update:
The next thing I do is to make a really, really fast terminal control - I'm currently writing this message with it. It's really awesome (on Linux - need to check other platforms). All I need to do is to improve the shader a bit then I'll release it - switched the UI API, reworked the communication layer - faster than ever and the lightning fast UI control on top. I hope it'll be ready this week. 0.30.0 may contain more bugs (not in the engine itself) - feedback would be nice. Esp. if the direction where it's going is a good or bad one.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Windows/64)
 * Origin: Altair IV BBS (21:2/147)

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