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Telix clone
- imdsm 6y agoalt-z for help Cries in MacOS
- seszett 6y agoIt doesn't seem to work under Linux either. I also tried Alt-W in case my AZERTY keyboard layout would be the problem, but it doesn't do anything either.
- yellowapple 6y agoYeah, doesn't work for me on Linux + Firefox + a US QWERTY keyboard, either.
- earthboundkid 6y agoIn some regions, the option key on Mac keyboards is labeled as "alt". E.g. https://www.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3504584/Mac-Keyboard_thumb1200_16-9.jpg https://www.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3504584/Mac-Keyb...
- jedieaston 6y agoIf you press Alt+Z on the Mac, you get this: Ω. Fn doesn't override it either.
- vasac 6y agoWhat happens if you pick Unicode Hex Input from System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input sources?
- cocktailpeanuts 6y agowhat is this?
- gruturo 6y agoThe 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"; :)
- blauditore 6y agoI have a hard time finding information about Telix. How did this work, e.g. how would one "discover" other people?
- ilaksh 6y agoI think Telix was just one popular modem program of many. Just Google for "BBS" i.e. bulletin board system. They worked over phone lines. Normally you would know about one BBS from a computer magazine and then that BBS would have a megalist of other ones on it.
- Meic 6y agoTelix[0] was just a terminal emulator, to find dial up systems you generally got information offline, such as via magazines or friends, and then got to know other systems from there, or from lists like the FidoNet node list. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix
- fullstop 6y agoUsually you'd find one BBS through word of mouth, and that one would have listings of systems which were hopefully a local number. There usually had just the one line so users were limited to a certain number of minutes a day before they were no longer permitted to sign on. Sometimes a shareware game or new "Demo" would make to to a BBS and it might take you a week or two to download the entire thing because of time limits. Some systems gave you extra time if you uploaded new content to encourage sharing. It was kind of a neat system, and I miss how small it was.
- raldi 6y ago
- operatorius 6y ago[38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65].forEach(key => document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", {keyCode: key})))
- telebone_man 6y agoI don't know but if you go into the input box and type on your keyboard... UUDDLRLRBA It pops up a cute little rainbow
- gameswithgo 6y agowhoa that takes me back.
- zorked 6y agoWell, 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.
- JdeBP 6y agoYou might enjoy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664979 .
- acheron 6y agoRemember Telix played C-E-G on the PC speaker when it connected?
- torgoguys 6y agoI saw the title and thought, "This is probably some other product named Telix, not the one I know about." And then I clicked on the link and it all came back to me. So. many. hours. using Telix back in the day. I eventually switched from Telix to Telemate because of its limited multitasking. I LOVED the BBS scene. Good times. Good times.
- jamiesonbecker 6y agoCan't remember which, but I think Telemate also had programmable macros that I used to jump in and out of hyperspace in one of the multiplayer door games..
- psim1 6y agoatdt8675309 OK In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com http://www.terminate.com
- fullstop 6y agoI 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.
- blakespot 6y agoNice, 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/ https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
- icedchai 6y agoYes! I remember JRComm! I used that up until 1994, on my A500 then A3000. Not sure why I never bothered to upgrade to Terminus.
- bhauer 6y agoFor me, Freeze Dried Terminal for the ST.
- blakespot 6y agoI 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-terminal-innovation-on-the-atari-st/ https://bytecellar.com/2017/06/18/four-colors-into-sixteen-t...
- icedchai 6y agoI miss the BBS days... sometimes. I used to use JRComm on the Amiga. Before that, it was Apple Access II on an Apple IIc.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoA friend of mine hosted a BBS on an Amiga in the early 90s. I was amazed by the machine's multitasking. He could actually use his computer while simultaneously hosting the BBS. (Eventually I think I got DESQview for my PC and could pull off a kinda-sorta approximation.) The BBS software he ran was Dungeons and Dragons themed, and as I recall it mixed exploring and combat along with the mundane BBS activities-- messages, downloads, etc. I think that your experience points in the game-side ended up translating to BBS-side privileges, too. I should do some searching to see if I can dig up some details. It was unique across the various BBS's I called.
- icedchai 6y agoYes, I also ran a BBS from my Amiga! I wrote it myself in C when I was a teen. The Amiga was amazing for the time, and learning about the OS was so much fun. I still play around with emulators now and then to take me back to that time.
- snvzz 6y agoI clicked expecting an open source clone that I could run on the same hardware. How disappointing.
- karaterobot 6y agoMy 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).
- tssva 6y agoMinicom which is available for most posix systems including Linux and macOS is modeled on Telix. My personal favorite DOS terminal program was Commo. It was totally customizable using macros. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commo
- EvanAnderson 6y agoI used the heck out of Minicom when I finally made Linux my "daily driver" back in the early 90s. When I finally did get dialup Internet service I ended up using "dip"[1] to script the logon to the ISP's terminal server (a Xyplex, if I remember correctly). I remember that the terminal server answered for finger and showed you the usernames of the logged-on users, their logon and idle time, and their serial port numbers. I remember complaining to the ISP when I was getting busy signals dialing into the modem pool and, when I finally did get on, seeing users logged-on two or three times with multi-hour idle times. [1] http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/man/man8/dip.8.html http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/man/man8/dip.8.html
- icedchai 6y agoThe good old days.. I remember using dip! I helped to build a few ISPs. We used Xylogic Annex terminal servers at one place. The second ISP used USR digital modems (I forget what they were called?) By the time I set up the third one, we'd outsourced all dialup to a third party network.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoI knew a guy who ran a small ISP in the Dayton, OH area. He went from having banks of external modems on POTS lines connected to multi-port serial cards attached to a Windows NT Server 3.51 machine to an Ascend router with a PRI and "digital modems" (CODECs in DSPs, no doubt) to finally using an outsourced dial provider, all in the space of about 18 - 24 months. I wish I'd been a little older and a little more business savvy at the time. It was clearly a wild time, and was probably lots of fun.
- ccoyle 6y agoLoved the BBS era. Commo by Fred Brucker was my favorite terminal program. Zmodem for downloads.
- ccoyle 6y agoI loved the BBS era. Commo by Fred Brucker was my modem progam of choice. Hook in Zmodem for downloads and you had a hot setup.
- nsenifty 6y agoBack in India, we had a (somewhat cheap) shell internet plan offered for students. You dial into a phone number that dropped you in a ISP shell from where you could use lynx or email. The problem was that our state-owned phone provider had a "courtesy" beep every 3 minutes to let us know we're being charged another unit, which would cause the modem to hang up. I remember setting up Telix to record the session, log into my Hotmail, open each email and scroll all the way down all in 3 minutes, and then read the emails from the session log.
- th0ma5 6y agoI recently found a bunch of Procomm Plus logs where I had typed back and forth with some local friends.
- ck2 6y agoha that's some fantastic nostalgia but ATV and ATI commands not working to my disappointment
- l8arrival 6y agoHey guys, this is Colin, the author of Telix. A friend of mine sent me a link to this thread. I just wanted to send a shoutout to everybody here. It's pretty cool and gratifying after all these years to see people still remembering and talking about Telix!
- jquast 6y agoThank you for all the memories !!
- mrlonglong 6y agoDoes anyone remember RoboComms to get mail off FidoNet?