Post 9y8Ht3PuhTOURd56dE by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht3PuhTOURd56dE by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-06-27T20:03:58Z
       
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       Does anyone have any opinions on the best option for connecting to telnet BBSes from Linux? (With ANSI / codepage 437 support specifically) #retrocomputingI used to use SyncTerm on Windows but it looks kind of... still using CVS in 2020
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht48a1P7gg9ymFk by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-06-28T02:10:13Z
       
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       qodem seems to work pretty well for running in the terminal, and actually has a package on my distro! Also supports direct serial connections which is a nice feature for talking to actual DOS machines; I've been suffering with running Telix under DOSBox for that.
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht568RylHerqL56 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-06-28T02:11:49Z
       
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       Netrunner is a nice SyncTerm-like with some nice ANSI upscaling features, but it appears to be distributed as a binary only? :thonking:I wanted to not have to deal with building it from source but I also just spent like an hour debugging my ANSI escape codes and having source access would have been kinda nice
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht5vBOBawDBj6eG by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-06-28T02:15:06Z
       
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       I'm messing around with this stuff because I have spent the day resurrecting MarMOTS: http://marmots.glorioustrainwrecks.com/not quite back online yet, but hopefully soon!
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht6vvctmlLn5DRw by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-06-28T19:50:58Z
       
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       MarMOTS is back up and running, and for the first time in 11 years, the source is now available too! It's a collaborative ANSI art drawing tool that runs over telnet, with dreams of someday becoming a ZZT MMO.http://marmots.glorioustrainwrecks.com/https://bitbucket.org/SpindleyQ/marmots
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht8THuM427XhN5M by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-07-06T00:33:25Z
       
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       10 years ago I implemented a multiuser structured code editor for MarMOTS. I've been slowly digging back into it over the past week, doing a bunch of refactoring and cleanup work. It's... not bad? Still needs a lot more usability work but I can write little scripts with it.
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8Ht9GCyTCCZGaRKy by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-08-13T18:45:33Z
       
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       WiModem232 arrived in the mail today. MarMOTS... almost works? I think I must be overflowing a buffer somewhere
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8HtABdWx8JRNSIqm by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
       2020-08-13T18:56:10Z
       
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       Punkim
       
 (DIR) Post #9y8HuC1aBP7PQjFB44 by icedquinn@blob.cat
       2020-08-15T02:36:53.360924Z
       
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       @SpindleyQ old computes :blobcatglowsticks: