Commodore BBS Outpost: List of Telnettable BBSes running on Commodore
hardware + emulators
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[deleted] · 2012-01-04 04:49

Commodore had their own character set generally referred to as
PETSCII.  While you can probably connect to any of these using a
normal telnet client emulating ASCII, for the full experience, there
seem to be three options:

[CGTerm](http://www.paradroid.net/cgterm/).  This is free and possibly
the quickest way but it hasn't been updated in awhile and doesn't
handle my screen resolution well at full screen.

[SyncTerm](http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/), which you can download here
and can do ANSI, PETSCII, but also Atari's ATASCII.    SyncTerm is the
best all-around client for BBSing because it is full of features
interesting mainly to BBSers (as oppose to bog-standard telnet
clients).

Alternately you can run WinVICE and get things working with telnet
using [this procedure](http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39
987&highlight=telnet).  In this case, you can run an old-school
Commodore terminal program of your choice (CCGMS seems most popular).
This is probably the most rewarding way of doing it, next to actually
hooking up Commodore hardware.