Subj : Re: Configure Mystic bbs for text only terminal
To   : bruno.grampa@gmail.com
From : g00r00
Date : Tue Dec 12 2017 12:39 pm

 br> i'm setting up a bbs using Mystic BBS software but i've encountered a
 br> problem that i can't solve: is there a way to configure it for text only
 br> terminals? I'm using a Sinclair Spectrum to connect but i always got
 br> characters that are not interpreted by the (real simple) terminal
 br> program. My focus is a bbs for computers such as Commodore 64, MSX, etc.
 br> etc. and they don't have ansi-bbs...

You can configure it to not use ANSI at all if you want to, but by the default
settings it should be detected on the login (or in your case not detected) and
then Mystic will switch to ASCII.

I think the issue is probably that the defaults use the IBM-PC ASCII character
set so there are probably going to be places where you'd need to reconfigure
those prompts so that they do not use the upper-ASCII text from IBM-PC ASCII.

The good news is...

In Mystic everything that is displayed to the user is configurable, and you can
create an unlimited number of "themes" all of which have their own unique
prompts, menus, and display files.  It can also do 40 column themes, although I
never saw someone actually attempt it so it might be buggy...

The bad news is...

The possibility is there, but it might take a bit of work on your side to
change the display text around so that it uses characters and lengths that
will work with those computers.

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