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Message   jas hud    Minstrel32   BBS' and Macs   October 30, 2010
 12:06 PM  

Re: BBS' and Macs

> Re: BBS' and Macs
>
> > Does anyone know of a good terminal program I can use on my old Mac G3 t
> > will display teh ANSI screens on a BBS correctly?
> >
> > Please reply to: dallas.vinson@gmail.com since I don't check the boards
> > often.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I'm replying to this so that others can benefit from the answer. :)  I
> recommend to all of my users that they use Syncterm these days unless they wa
> to try their hand at using a helper program with the BBS version of Trade War
> 2002.  It works with everything that I run on my BBS and is available on just
> about every platform that most people use as their primary OS including Mac a
> *NIX users.  If that's not sufficient, roll your own since it's open-sourced.
>

i've always liked mt32
(mirror site) http://mt32.bbses.info/

also anybody on *nix or windows can use an older terminal program with dosbox
and be up and running in a minute. it's fun too!


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