Terminate.com - the world's best communication program reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gnu2tux · 2021-03-20 09:22 I wonder what happened to strathrory systems! I used terminate every day when I was dialling up BBSes. I installed v5 on a 286 the other day w/640k ram. It ran slooow! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HernBurford · 2021-03-20 11:30 Still on team Telemate here. One of my best friends qas a Terminate user. I was always wowed by the ANSI art in the installer and actual program. Definitely slicker than any comm program I had ever seen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sai_ruk · 2021-03-20 12:15 Ended my DOS days on terminate but was a zoc user on os/2 for a long while as well ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Galileo228 · 2021-03-20 12:23 Original Qmodem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2021-03-20 12:24 I used Terminate as well! Didn’t it have a BBS host built in as well?? I recall something like that... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mattjh · 2021-03-20 13:27 The infinite backlog that Telemate offered was a game changer for me. I used to call into Diversi-Dial chat systems, and being able to walk away from the computer and then come back and catch up with the conversation by scrolling up was magic. Telemate was also my very first experience with copy/paste. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _freezmi · 2021-03-20 16:50 I loved it. IIRC it was also my fidonet mailer. I hope to make a local setup in which to relive those days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Megaboz2K · 2021-03-20 18:43 I still remember the day (longgg ago) I switched from Telix to Terminate. I was blown away by all the cool features and the slick ANSI interface - I was an instant fan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheeAbyssWalker · 2021-03-20 18:56 That font was sick. Thanks for posting this it makes me happy to scroll through the screenshots. Terminate was my program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- s1500 · 2021-03-20 21:04 I do remember that program. Yes, it was the best. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gstandard00 · 2021-03-21 02:15 Terminate was pretty slick but for some reason I always went back to Telemate. Can't remember why though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gstandard00 · 2021-03-21 03:09 yep mini host BBS [https://www.terminate.com/tour/tour- host.html](https://www.terminate.com/tour/tour-host.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- samalex01 · 2021-03-21 03:32 Though I bounced between COMit, Telix, and Terminate I'll admit Terminate was my fave... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScuttleSE · 2021-03-21 15:30 I remember Terminate...was more or less the standard piece of software among BBS users around here... A few years back I dug around and found a piece of software called Terminator 2, which seems to have been some kind of fork of Terminate or something. The readme-files in the archive are really weird. Either the guy had a legit beef with the guy who wrote Terminate, or he was a legit weirdo. https://paste.ee/p/DsGnL - Readme-file from Terminator 2 https://paste.ee/p/GK6Fv - The license agreement, LICENSE.DOC https://paste.ee/p/wbSPw - This is where the real fun begins, BO$WELCH.TXT https://paste.ee/p/VF806 - LIAR_WOO.DS https://paste.ee/p/FjvpA - FAQ.DOC https://paste.ee/p/v5TTj - Order form for the Windows 95 beta, requires, among other things, a £100 deposit... https://paste.ee/p/Z0ywP - FUTURE.DOC https://paste.ee/p/LN71K - RESLT100.TXT https://paste.ee/p/yf2EP - ZHADANOV.TXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HernBurford · 2021-03-21 16:00 For me it was the ability to have simultaneous edit and view buffers while your were connected. I loved being able to read or edit a separate text file while waiting for downloads to finish, all on my measly 286 with 1MB of memory. Later on when dialing into a Unix shell, I got pretty good with Telemate's macro features but I never gave Terminate a shot at this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SqualorTrawler · 2021-03-21 19:53 This is one of those many situations I read about in which my only thought is, "I am glad I am not involved." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2021-03-23 13:40 Just be advised Terminate renders pretty badly these days. I think you'll have trouble going to any BBS and not encounter a garbled mess. Telemate 4.21 still works great though! I use it regularly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- codefenix · 2021-03-23 23:24 I was a COMit user. What a great simple terminal that was. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- samalex01 · 2021-03-24 01:14 Yup, it came free with my 2400 baud internal modem, and I just liked it so stuck with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gstandard00 · 2021-03-24 23:31 thats it, it was the multithreading capabilities and macro functionality that got me too. also I think mouse support was very good as well. it was a real work horse.