Subj : what are you dialing in with?
To   : maple
From : Spectre
Date : Sun Jun 09 2024 23:18:00

 ma> curious what everybody is dialing in to chat with on these boards, for
 ma> those doing it on retro hardware :)

For the most part, SyncTERM on the regular daily drive.  I'm in the process
of sorting out the pooty room, having just got some benches installed, I
expect to be running with the IIgs again soon. Usually I serial it to a Raspi
and telnet from there, but have also whipped up a couple of Wi-Modems in the
past.  I think I still have makings for one here.. should give it a belt
again... had trouble with serial converters at one stage though.

On the II be it an e, c or gs the usual terminal software is ProTerm if text
is good enough. Its ANSI/VT100 is usually not solid enough for games though.
AGATE on a c or e will give better ANSI emulation thats all its designed to
do, but processing limitations will leave you at ~9600 otherwise you'll get
over runs particularly on dense pages. This is in glorious b&w the only way
to get enough screen resolution to have 80chrs.  The GS will also give you
MegaTerm which while still hamstrung by available resolution does give colour
and a pretty good rendering of most pages, again limited to ~9600 for the
same reason rendering takes to long.


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