Name That Terminal Software... reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StarMapLIVE · 2021-12-05 03:52 Way back in the day I remember using a terminal software on PC that had its own relatively modern GUI desktop. This was even before Windows 95 which was quite a feat for the time. You could dial out to any traditional ANSI based BBS and control the output in a window. Additionally, it had functionality to communicate with their own proprietary BBS software which would output what looked like a modern website (and not ANSI), or interact by various windows. What was the name of this?????? Asking for nostalgia reasons. EDIT: It was RoboBOARD/FX. Why wasn't it more popular? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ntack9933 · 2021-12-05 04:56 Telex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- elconcho · 2021-12-05 04:58 Thanks for the memory. I think it was a victim of being a narrow solution on few platforms (and proprietary as your mentioned). That was also around the time of the internet becoming more popular. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spish · 2021-12-05 05:14 You might be thinking of Telix. Telex was teletype back in the day. Telix was the DOS terminal program written by Colin Samplaneau. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ntack9933 · 2021-12-05 05:18 Yes! It was fantastic and my first terminal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spish · 2021-12-05 05:21 Was one of the best, along with Qmodem and PCTalk. Telix was my go to for many years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- serideru · 2021-12-05 05:22 Wildcat 5 kind of had a start to something like that when they were trying to integrate web browsing into a BBS. I ran a Wildcat 4 BBS for a long time, picked up 5 when it came out and wasn't really a fan at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ntack9933 · 2021-12-05 05:43 Sadly, MegaMud became my defacto terminal due to my addiction to MajorMUD lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-12-05 10:32 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2021-12-05 10:48 I was going to say RIPTERM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- danav · 2021-12-05 13:04 I was going to say Excalibur. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AtariBBS · 2021-12-05 13:20 ProComm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2021-12-06 01:45 I think people didn’t want another client. Wasn’t just point n click downloads back then. Also, every RoboBoard looked the same. Not sure what the customization possibilities were, but the handful I’ve ever been on didn’t do much beyond what came out of the box. It was pretty cool, though. RipScript seemed to have more traction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2021-12-06 17:37 I think this was a big part of it - I remember the first time I used a few boards that had RIP or something similar and they all looked very bland and had the same screens. It was neat, but it stripped the entire personality from the board. I never used that option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BryanLee35 · 2021-12-08 19:27 I loved RoboBOARD/FX In fact I still host a copy of the software on my server, however I'm currently working on reviving Shotgun Professional to make it work under most modern Operating systems. if you'd like to see what it looks like as of today you can check out my youtube channel. [https://youtu.be/flsMuzYuyUk](https://youtu.be/flsMuzYuyUk) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1- Cc4NX0quk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Cc4NX0quk) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Polaris504 · 2022-01-15 20:01 There was also a windows client to browse worldgroup bbs (formerly majorbbs) bulletin boards but it was junk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jfalcon206 · 2022-03-26 01:49 QModem and Telix were the topguns for PC/DOS. Terminate came in towards the end with BiModem/Zmodem with the odd TeleDisk session for those really quirky physical floppies that just need to send exact sector copies. I'm very sad that the \*nix community still really hasn't matched the quality of either or figured out a way to wrap/port the 16bit TPascal runtimes.