atdt8675309 OK In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com
For me, Freeze Dried Terminal for the ST.
Telix clone
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Re: Telix clone
#22atdt8675309 OK In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com
I used telix until I was able to download Terminate. Nostalgia overload going on over here. Do you remember HS/Link? Being able to chat with the sysop while downloading blew my mind at the time.
Nice, I will check this out on my Tandy 1000HX BBS machine. I haven't found an ideal terminal program for that config. I actually thought you typed "Terminus," which is the terminal program I used on the Amiga 1200 back in '92. Today, I use Radigan's predecessor to Terminus, JR-Comm on the Amiga 1000, which is the system I use most frequently for BBSing.
Some of these systems can be seen on my BBSing page: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
Re: Telix clone
#23atdt8675309 OK In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com
For me, Freeze Dried Terminal for the ST.
I hear lots of good about that term. I use the interesting, "16-color" TAZ when I bring out the 520ST for BBSing these days. :-)
https://bytecellar.com/2017/06/18/four-colors-into-sixteen-t...
Re: Telix clone
#24I miss the BBS days... sometimes.
I used to use JRComm on the Amiga. Before that, it was Apple Access II on an Apple IIc.
Re: Telix clone
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used telix until I was able to download Terminate. Nostalgia overload going on over here. Do you remember HS/Link? Being able to chat with the sysop while downloading blew my mind at the time.
Nice, I will check this out on my Tandy 1000HX BBS machine. I haven't found an ideal terminal program for that config. I actually thought you typed "Terminus," which is the terminal program I used on the Amiga 1200 back in '92. Today, I use Radigan's predecessor to Terminus, JR-Comm on the Amiga 1000, which is the system I use most frequently for BBSing. Some of these systems can be seen on my BBSing page: https://by…
Yes! I remember JRComm! I used that up until 1994, on my A500 then A3000. Not sure why I never bothered to upgrade to Terminus.
Re: Telix clone
#26I clicked expecting an open source clone that I could run on the same hardware.
How disappointing.
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#27Re: Telix clone
#28My first computer was a 386 SX, which came with a modem, but I didn't know what that was at the time. I was 12 or so, and didn't know computers could talk to each other over the phone line. I discovered Telix while dorking around in DOS, but it made no sense to me.
Some time later, I was talking to the guy at Radio Shack (!) and I mentioned this mysterious program. He knowingly nodded, said "plug one end of this cord into your wall jack, the other into the back of your PC, then type the following command..."
Cut to a year later, I'm running a BBS out of my bedroom, learning to write door games, and scripting for MUDs. I can draw a pretty straight line between Telix and my future career (even though Terminate was cooler).
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"; :)
I have a hard time finding information about Telix. How did this work, e.g. how would one "discover" other people?
You would come upon a ZIP file and alongside its primary payload there would be one or more ads for various BBSes.
Sometimes the ads were the payload: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art#Scene
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#30Well, 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…
You might enjoy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664979 .