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However, Stephen hasn't officially released the non-crashing version of SyncTERM 0.9.2 yet, but I have made it available via the following link, if anyone is interested, until he does: In fact, just yesterday, Stephen wrote to me telling me that 0.9.3 will soon be out the door.
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I have been working closely with Stephen over the past few weeks, reporting bugs and problems with the Macintosh version of SyncTERM, and there is now a version of SyncTERM 0.9.2 which does not have the crashing upon launch problem that I mentioned in my previous post. In spite of that, just recently, I convinced him to finally add SyncTERM to the VersionTracker website, and he also updated his listing on MacUpdate as well. Well, I am happy to say that Stephen Hurd/Deuce is still very much actively developing SyncTERM, although he has made it clear to me via email that he does it primarily for his own personal use, and isn't really interested in acquiring a large SyncTERM "fan base", which is why you don't see him advertising SyncTERM all over the place.
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Also the interface and setup is kind of backwards and obviously not geared toward calling BBS systems like Syncterm is. iTerm would be perfect if you could find the right fonts for it but out of the box the it doesn't support fonts used by most BBS systems. MacWISE is a WYSE terminal emulator and a damn fine one at that, but not the kind of thing you want to call a BBS with. Like the OP said, the other programs like iTerm require fonts that are hard to come by to do correct BBS ANSI characters.
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You really look like you are back on an old DOS PC calling a BBS. SyncTERM doesn't feel like a modern OSX app, as a matter of fact it looks like a dos program from 1985 but you know, that is part of the charm. I have found that the best "BBS Calling" terminal program for the Mac is exactly what RumorzGuy said, Syncterm. I run a BBS off of my Amiga 1200 () but use an intel iMac as my primary system. It is sad how few applications there are for calling BBS's, and probably even sadder how few bbs's there are left out there.
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Luit's manual page can be found here, or 'man luit' if you have X11 installed on your Mac it comes in X11 by default. It'll be slower than a straight Cocoa solution, and require a little more technical jiggery-pokery, but the price is definitely lower than MacWise. If you have the X11 package for OS X installed and need a freer alternative, luit should be sufficient to enable what you want in an ANSI-enabled X11 Terminal. I /do/ also play door games (gimme my TradeWars 2002, darnit!), but I've always just used MacWise. It does what it's designed for, and door games ain't that. In short, the requirements for a MUD/MUSH/MUCK client to be useful are vastly different than those for a terminal client to be useful for playing BBS door games! I'm the author of the aforementioned Atlantis I can honestly say I've never even considered using it for door games. Door games not only send old-style IBM Extended ASCII (line-drawing characters and suchnot) where most Mac terminal applications are Unicode, but also in many cases will send ANSI cursor movement sequences (which many MUD/MUSH clients neither support, nor need to). MUD/MUSH type games send things like ANSI color, MCP extended sequences (which allow passing out-of-band data to plugins), MXP sequences (basically, HTML over telnet), etc. Tintin++, TinyFugue, Savitar, Mudwalker and Atlantis are all designed specifically for MUD/MUSH/MUCK/MOO/etc.