Is there any way to access the BBS using a windows 10 program? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Analog_Offline · 2021-09-15 19:43 I am interested in this BBS thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dikkiesmalls · 2021-09-15 20:01 Netrunner, or syncterm are 2 clients I have ran on windows 10. Also, magiterm if you can find it works really well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThisApril · 2021-09-15 20:12 Replying because your answer is good for the actual question. But I'll also point out that https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ exists, too, and you can go to BBSs straight through that, as it uses fTelnet to display BBSs through web pages. And I'm sure there's more than one BBS who has their own installation of fTelnet as well. I think the Magiterm/Syncterm/Netrunner are still preferable in general, but there are oftentimes easy ways for people to get connected without having to do anything more than go to a web page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-15 20:30 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Android8675 · 2021-09-15 21:34 ssh clients work too. Most synchronet bbs's running the git builds have utf-8 character sets, looks like ansi, but it's utf-8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2021-09-15 21:39 mTelnet also works in Windows 10. An older program that doesn't work with about 10% of the BBSes out there, but works fine with the other 90%. For the 10% it doesn't do, I use SyncTerm, Netrunner or Qmodem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- crashj · 2021-09-16 00:52 Not to be too pedantic, I think you mean to say modern builds of SBBS support UTF-8. Current release builds (non-git) of SBBS support UTF-8 just fine as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Android8675 · 2021-09-16 01:15 Well there you have it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-16 13:41 why doesnt it work with those 10% can you give me a bbs url? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fang-castro · 2021-09-16 19:08 putty works in a pinch =p ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2021-09-19 23:17 It's those new ones that use UTF-8 encoding. Again only about 10% or so. Some Mystic boards are that way. All of the Enigma is that way. Just a new way of doing things. Otherwise mTelnet is still a great program. Old but works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-09-20 14:25 oh, okay. i've only visited a few of those bbses. i like mtelnet but it does have problems cutting and pasting. otherwise it's a solid program. too bad the author went through a rough patch in life and went away. hope he's still alive, he was a cool guy.