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    From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to All on Mon Dec 15 21:11:38 2025
    Hi, all.

    On the weekend I installed Ubuntu onto a 2011 Macbook Pro - it's really quite quick and functional for a nearly 15 year old machine.

    Anyway, one thing I'm really struggling with is finding a terminal to use for BBSing. I'm currently in Qodem, however I am not digging its use of the standard terminal font or the fact it adjusts the row / col count rather than scaling the window if you try to maximise / full-screen it.

    I never expected to have such trouble getting others to work, though. I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and I've tried:

    - Syncterm via snap - installs a broken version that can't resolve hostnames or connect to anything

    - Syncterm via Meatlotion's installer script - installs and can connect but crashes after the login screen of (e.g.) Magnum BBS with a font render error

    - Icyterm via source - refuses to run due to some random type conversion error

    - Icyterm via .deb download - similar to above but with a different type

    Can anyone recommend me a terminal that works on current Linux setups and does 80x25 full screen, ideally with a VGA font like MuffinTerm does?

    This is the last position I expected to be in, I thought I'd have loads of options!

    Thanks,

    BobW
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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to Bob Worm on Mon Dec 15 21:55:04 2025
    I never expected to have such
    trouble getting others to work,
    though. I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
    and I've tried:

    My main computer is running Ubuntu 22.04 on a 10+ year old Dell laptop so not exactly the same.

    Are you able to build SyncTerm from source? That's how I do it and haven't had any issues.


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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to slacker on Mon Dec 15 22:12:54 2025
    Re: Re: ANSI terminal clients for Linux
    By: slacker to Bob Worm on Mon Dec 15 2025 21:55:04

    Hi, slacker.

    Are you able to build SyncTerm from source? That's how I do it and haven't had any issues.

    That's what Meat's script does - pulls a couple of dependencies, grabs the latest source and compiles it.

    Possibly I could pull a slightly older version and see if that behaves any better? It's a bit concerning to me that the snap version is so thoroughly broken - like nobody would ever release a package that behaved like that.

    Aside from a couple of Mac-isms, though (right click no worky, scrolling is a bit wild in some apps), everything else seems to behave well. Although to be honest I've mostly been taking advantage of the DVD drive to watch some old stoner movies :)

    BobW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 16 14:10:26 2025

    Hello Bob!

    15 Dec 25 21:11, you wrote to all:

    Can anyone recommend me a terminal that works on current Linux setups
    and does 80x25 full screen, ideally with a VGA font like MuffinTerm
    does?


    Netrunner from the mystic bbs website.

    https://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html


    Vorlon


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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to Vorlon on Tue Dec 16 11:05:55 2025
    Re: ANSI terminal clients for Linux
    By: Vorlon to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 16 2025 14:10:26

    Hi, Vorlon.

    Netrunner from the mystic bbs website. https://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html

    Thanks for the tip - I will give that a try!

    BobW
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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to Vorlon on Tue Dec 16 13:38:42 2025
    Re: ANSI terminal clients for Linux
    By: Vorlon to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 16 2025 14:10:26

    Hi, Vorlon.

    Netrunner from the mystic bbs website. https://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html

    I didn't wait until later - I had the old MBP out doing some legitimate work so I thought I'd install Netrunner while it was booted. On it now and it works perfectly.

    I just remembered, actually, that Netrunner was the only thing I could get to run on the Windows XP netbook that I got given the same time as this. For some reason it works the XP machine really hard so it gets hot and runs the battery down but it seems a bit less demanding on here :)

    Thanks again!

    BobW
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/196 to Bob Worm on Thu Dec 18 18:13:41 2025
    Hi Box,

    On Tuesday December 16 2025, Bob Worm said to Vorlon:

    Re: ANSI terminal clients for Linux
    By: Vorlon to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 16 2025 14:10:26

    Hi, Vorlon.

    Netrunner from the mystic bbs website.
    https://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html

    I didn't wait until later - I had the old MBP out doing some legitimate work so I thought I'd install Netrunner while it was booted. On it now
    and it works perfectly.

    Thumbs up emoji! #0)

    I just remembered, actually, that Netrunner was the only thing I could
    get to run on the Windows XP netbook that I got given the same time as this. For some reason it works the XP machine really hard so it gets
    hot and runs the battery down but it seems a bit less demanding on here
    :)

    That could be due to the way netrunner does it's display things.
    XP also dosn't have the controlls in place like the newer os versions do.


    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen

    Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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