See my BBSing resource page for a list of alternative devices for a variety of platforms. UPDATE: The WiFi232 device is no longer being manufactured.
Here’s a list of telnet BBSs to get you started. I hope the demo video I put together gives a taste of what the WiFi232 enables, and I wholeheartedly recommend that any vintage computing fan grab one and get back online. The WiFi232 is easy to move around, works exactly as advertised - it is an oldschool modem to my vintage systems - and gives me a compelling, new reason to spend time on a variety of machines in my collection. I had early access to the device (well, I have two) and have been enjoying them on my Apple //c at the office as well as my enhanced Apple IIe, Amiga 1000, and TI-99/4A (recently upgraded to 80-columns with an F18a FPGA video board (that’s a blog post for later)) at the house. Your vintage computer thinks its talking on the phone. Once things are configured (it supports 300 to 115,200 baud), just load up your favorite terminal program, type:Īnd the WiFi232 “dials” into that telnet BBS. The WiFi232 is configured by connecting to the device’s built-in web server and loading the configuration page or by issuing extended AT configuration commands.
It has a 25-pin RS-232 data interface and a Mini-USB connector for power - it should work with any computer sporting a standard serial port. The purpose of the device is to act as a bridge between your serial port and your local WiFi router. It accepts standard AT commands as well as AT commands that go rather beyond the standard Hayes commandset. In a nutshell, it works like this: The WiFi232, as far as your vintage computer is concerned, is a Hayes telephone modem. Paul’s WiFi232 Internet Modem is an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. But, thanks to a piece of kit released by Paul Rickards, over the past month I have become fully immersed in the telnet BBS scene. Or download the Complete Source as of Sat 10:55:15 (8769.Over the past year or so, I’ve been loading up SyncTerm and logging in to various telnet-accessible BBSs here and there - nothing too consistent. Nokia N8x0 Tablet Version (thanks to qwerty!) The rest of these should be built from source whenever possibleĦ4-bit Linux build available from: DigitalManģ2-bit Linux build available from: MarisaG
Or you can download the latest official release here The below links are almost certainly not what you want. You can get the latest git code with the following command git clone If you haven't chosen your favourite terminal yet, why not try out MagiTerm, EtherTerm, Qodem and NetRunner too!
SyncTERM v1.1 is now available for Mac and Windows Stable releases are available from the project page. Please file bug reports at the SourceForge bug tracker and feature requests in the Feature Request tracker.
To install SyncTERM as your default telnet:// and rlogin:// handler follow the instructions for *nix Mozilla/Firefox or Win32.
Telnet, RLogin, SSH, RAW, modem, shell (*nix only) and direct serial connections.ANSI Music (through the sound card if installed).Support for IBM low and high ASCII including the face graphics (☺ and ☻) and card symbols (♥, ♦, ♣, and ♠) which so many other terms have problems with (may not work in curses mode.
Full CGTerm Commodore 64 PETSCII support.*nix versions will run using SDL, X11, or using curses SyncTERM v1.1 is now available for Mac and Windows Stable releases are available from the project page.
Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, and FreeBSD I finally got SyncTerm v1.1 to run on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program which supports: