Telix clone

The Telix terminal interface. I spent so, so much time on it in the 80s, discovering BBSes, other people and later exploring the worldwide X25 network.

Also, from the page's source code:

// UUDDLRLRBA! var kkeys = [], konami = "38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65";

:)

Re: Telix clone

#6

Post by telebone_man » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

I don't know but if you go into the input box and type on your keyboard...

UUDDLRLRBA

It pops up a cute little rainbow

Re: Telix clone

#7

Post by gameswithgo » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 12:46 PM UTC

whoa that takes me back.

Re: Telix clone

#8

Post by close04 » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

telebone_man wrote: post #6

I don't know but if you go into the input box and type on your keyboard... UUDDLRLRBA It pops up a cute little rainbow

cornify.js [0], appropriate :).

[0] https://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js

Re: Telix clone

#9

Post by joosters » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

telebone_man wrote: post #6

I don't know but if you go into the input box and type on your keyboard... UUDDLRLRBA It pops up a cute little rainbow

Hold down Return after typing it for a very blinged-out window!

Re: Telix clone

#10

Post by zorked » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 12:58 PM UTC

Well, as good a time as any to remember an old exploit.

Back in the old days, to put the modem back in command mode, you had to send it +++ and wait one second without sending anything.

Hayes, a modem manufacturer, owned a patent on this "and wait one second" idea. Some manufacturers had to implement this idea without that one second.

Then came the Internet, and with it the ICMP protocol, which is a neat way to make a remote connection repeat stuff back to you. And lo and behold, you could send a ICMP packet with data that contained "+++ATH0" and when echoing back the packet your modem would pick it up as a command and disconnect. Same goes for IRC /ctcp ping commands, and many other protocols.