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“MuffinTerm”: A great new terminal app for BBSing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- ynac 4y agoHow about BBS software for hosting a BBS on an iPhone?
- blakespot 4y agoEasy there, tiger.
- jlundberg 4y agoI have been contemplating this actually. An opportunity for a lot of fun IMHO and ”page sysop” could use haptics :P
- allenu 4y agoNot quite the same thing, but I wrote BBS door games back in the day and I keep thinking about writing one today for the iPhone, with ANSI art and all.
- snazz 4y agoI’ve played around with iSH on the iPhone and you can definitely run a server in the background, but there are some fairly major caveats. Background apps are severely throttled compared to the foreground app (so you can access your basic web server from Safari on the same iPhone, but it’s not very fast). You also need to give the background app location permissions so iOS keeps it running. If you jailbroke your iPhone then it would probably be much easier.
- reiichiroh 4y agoHas anyone found active TW2002 games?
- newobj 4y agoLove this. Can anyone recommend a BBSing-oriented terminal for Windows?
- blakespot 4y agoThere's SyncTerm.
- darknavi 4y agoHow big is the BBS scene these days?
- mig39 4y agoDoes it work as an SSH client? Or just telnet? Connecting to mysite.com (port 2224)... CONNECT FULL SPEED SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.8 Invalid SSH identification string. NO CARRIER
- lxgr 4y ago> Not yet—but perhaps in a future update…!
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoNo instructions on how to connect to a BBS. If I type atdt into the app, I hear a dial tone! But if i type atdt 916-965-1701, it says ERROR. So what is the command to connect? 916-965-1701 is the phone number for bbs.fozztexx.com EDIT: instructions are here https://muffinterm.app/manual/connecting https://muffinterm.app/manual/connecting
- harwoodr 4y agoFrom the FAQ: Is MuffinTerm really “calling” a BBS, like over a telephone? Will this use minutes on my telephone plan or anything? No, MuffinTerm connects to the BBS over the Internet, using your device’s network (data) connection; the term “calling” is just retained from the modem era. (There are still some BBSes that offer actual dial-in over a telephone line; but MuffinTerm doesn’t use such hardware.) Wait, I did something and it definitely made telephone sounds. Ahhhh, you didn’t believe me and tried typing in an old ATDT call string, didn’t you. Well, despite the sounds that you heard, it’s still not really dialing out on a telephone. But you can perhaps relive a bit of old times that way. :)
- fnordpiglet 4y agoIt really should allow atdt <host> and sound out the dialing of the resolved host
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- bink 4y agoIf you're going to go that far it should also drop connections randomly and shout "I need to use the phone!" in a mother's voice. NO CARRIER
- fnordpiglet 4y agoI’d really like it if it could include modem negotiation tones for various modems.
- CharlesW 4y agoTIL the WiFi232 (linked to in TFA) exists. Wow! https://bytecellar.com/2017/05/30/the-wonderful-wifi232-bbsing-has-literally-never-been-easier/ https://bytecellar.com/2017/05/30/the-wonderful-wifi232-bbsi...
- wkat4242 4y agoIs there anything as good on Android? With ANSI color support etc?
- easrng 4y agoTermux has ANSI color support.