MS-DOS/Win3.11/OS2 best BBS terminal and IRC client?
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HWfreak · 2020-07-10 07:17

Hello

Can You send something nice?

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[deleted] · 2020-07-10 07:21

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[deleted] · 2020-07-10 09:18

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PetrichorMemories · 2020-07-10 10:06

Old versions of mIRC work on Windows 3.1. See
http://www.win31.de/elinks.htm , bottom of page.

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samalex01 · 2020-07-10 10:08

Terminate was my fave back in the day as well.  I never had a good irc
program though for dos, just used mirc on Win 3.11.

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TheDemeisen · 2020-07-10 10:39

I am using qmodem and ripterm at the moment for DOS. I Will check out
Terminat as per /u/caress-of-steel suggestion.

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kweiske · 2020-07-10 15:11

Procomm Plus for Windows was a pretty good package, I liked the
scalable fonts.

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[deleted] · 2020-07-10 16:21

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[deleted] · 2020-07-10 16:26

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temotodochi · 2020-07-10 17:02

I think there's a win 3 version of securecrt

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BrundleflyUrinalCake · 2020-07-10 21:34

Mirc ftw

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intheequinox · 2020-07-11 00:15

Telix was my everything for an MS-DOS BBS terminal back then.

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[deleted] · 2020-07-11 03:00

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nevarro · 2020-07-11 05:43

I recently tested a bunch of BBS clients on MSDOS and Windows 3.11.
For modern ANSI BBSes, I found Telemate worked best in DOS and Telix
worked best in Windows 3.11.

[https://serionbbs.com/dos-bbs-clients.php](https://serionbbs.com/dos-
bbs-clients.php)

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nevarro · 2020-07-12 02:50

I tested Terminate recently and it didn't render ANSI well, at all...

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[deleted] · 2020-07-12 07:43

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gnu2tux · 2020-07-29 03:19

I am assuming you've been using SyncTERM? It's hands down the best for
Windows/Mac/Linux for connecting to ANSI bbs's. I use HexChat for IRC,
but there may be better clients out there. For the command line in
Linux I use irssi which suits me just fine (I even use libpurple to
use slack on it!).

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ILikeBumblebees · 2020-08-15 19:51

I use RIPTerm under DOSBox -- lots of telnet BBSes still support
RIPscrip, sometimes unbeknownst to the SysOps!