[HN Gopher] "MuffinTerm": A great new terminal app for BBSing on...
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"MuffinTerm": A great new terminal app for BBSing on iPhone, iPad,
and Mac
Author : blakespot
Score : 72 points
Date : 2023-01-25 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bytecellar.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (bytecellar.com)
| CharlesW wrote:
| TIL the WiFi232 (linked to in TFA) exists. Wow!
|
| https://bytecellar.com/2017/05/30/the-wonderful-wifi232-bbsi...
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| No instructions on how to connect to a BBS. If I type _atdt_ into
| the app, I hear a dial tone! But if i type _atdt 916-965-1701_ ,
| it says _ERROR_. So what is the command to connect? 916-965-1701
| is the phone number for bbs.fozztexx.com
|
| EDIT: instructions are here
| https://muffinterm.app/manual/connecting
| harwoodr wrote:
| From the FAQ:
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| Is MuffinTerm really "calling" a BBS, like over a telephone?
| Will this use minutes on my telephone plan or anything?
|
| No, MuffinTerm connects to the BBS over the Internet, using
| your device's network (data) connection; the term "calling" is
| just retained from the modem era. (There are still some BBSes
| that offer actual dial-in over a telephone line; but MuffinTerm
| doesn't use such hardware.)
|
| Wait, I did something and it definitely made telephone sounds.
|
| Ahhhh, you didn't believe me and tried typing in an old ATDT
| call string, didn't you. Well, despite the sounds that you
| heard, it's still not really dialing out on a telephone. But
| you can perhaps relive a bit of old times that way. :)
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| It really should allow atdt <host> and sound out the dialing
| of the resolved host
| bink wrote:
| If you're going to go that far it should also drop
| connections randomly and shout "I need to use the phone!"
| in a mother's voice.
|
| NO CARRIER
| [deleted]
| darknavi wrote:
| How big is the BBS scene these days?
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| I'd really like it if it could include modem negotiation tones
| for various modems.
| ynac wrote:
| How about BBS software for hosting a BBS on an iPhone?
| allenu wrote:
| Not quite the same thing, but I wrote BBS door games back in
| the day and I keep thinking about writing one today for the
| iPhone, with ANSI art and all.
| jlundberg wrote:
| I have been contemplating this actually. An opportunity for a
| lot of fun IMHO and "page sysop" could use haptics :P
| snazz wrote:
| I've played around with iSH on the iPhone and you can
| definitely run a server in the background, but there are some
| fairly major caveats. Background apps are severely throttled
| compared to the foreground app (so you can access your basic
| web server from Safari on the same iPhone, but it's not very
| fast). You also need to give the background app location
| permissions so iOS keeps it running. If you jailbroke your
| iPhone then it would probably be much easier.
| blakespot wrote:
| Easy there, tiger.
| newobj wrote:
| Love this. Can anyone recommend a BBSing-oriented terminal for
| Windows?
| blakespot wrote:
| There's SyncTerm.
| mig39 wrote:
| Does it work as an SSH client? Or just telnet?
| Connecting to mysite.com (port 2224)...
| CONNECT FULL SPEED
| SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.8
| Invalid SSH identification string.
| NO CARRIER
| lxgr wrote:
| > Not yet--but perhaps in a future update...!
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