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    From captain morgan@46:1/104 to All on Thu Jun 20 15:05:18 2019
    Just installed syncterm on a linux system and its great for connecting to
    bbs's such as this. Ascii art etc all display very well
    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (46:1/104)
  • From MeaTLoTioN@46:20/106 to captain morgan on Fri Jun 21 00:02:46 2019
    On 20 Jun 2019, captain morgan said the following...

    Just installed syncterm on a linux system and its great for connecting to bbs's such as this. Ascii art etc all display very well

    Right on man, I use that as my daily driver. It handles the special fonts nicely too, my BBS uses the Microknight+ fonts to make it feel like the Amiga days =)

    Wouldn't be without my syncTERM now.
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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Quantum Wormhole, Ramsgate, UK. bbs.erb.pw (46:20/106)
  • From LockeDown@46:10/120 to MeaTLoTioN on Thu Jun 20 18:11:49 2019
    On 21 Jun 2019, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

    On 20 Jun 2019, captain morgan said the following...

    Just installed syncterm on a linux system and its great for
    connectin
    bbs's such as this. Ascii art etc all display very well

    Right on man, I use that as my daily driver. It handles the special fonts nicely too, my BBS uses the Microknight+ fonts to make it feel like the Amiga days =)

    Wouldn't be without my syncTERM now.

    Has anyone been able to get netrunner to work under Linux? I use that for my main Windows PC and love it and want to see if it is possible to also get it
    to run under my Xubuntu clients as well.

    I just happened to buy a an HP netbook (last night) and loaded Xubuntu as dual boot in case i need to fallback to windows 10 for any reason but would love
    to stick with NetRunner if anyone has any advice on how to get it running.

    I tried to unrar the 64 bit linux rar via unrar-free and for some reason the contents all get extracted as folders instead of files.
    ---
    LockeDown (Mickey Frklic)
    [mysticisland.strangled.net]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Mystic Island BBS [mysticisland.strangled.net] (46:10/120)
  • From LockeDown@46:10/120 to LockeDown on Thu Jun 20 18:47:42 2019
    On 20 Jun 2019, LockeDown said the following...
    I tried to unrar the 64 bit linux rar via unrar-free and for some reason the contents all get extracted as folders instead of files.

    Got it working! Turns out the issue was trying to use "unrar-free" which does not like the format of RAR netrunner is compressed with.

    Switched to the standard "unrar" package and was able to extract and run fine -- in fact posting now via netrunner on Xubuntu!

    It's actually kind of great running it full screen on a small netbook. Full
    BBS focused experience.
    ---
    LockeDown (Mickey Frklic)
    [mysticisland.strangled.net]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Mystic Island BBS [mysticisland.strangled.net] (46:10/120)
  • From Black Panther@46:1/181 to LockeDown on Thu Jun 20 19:50:25 2019
    On 20 Jun 2019, LockeDown said the following...

    Has anyone been able to get netrunner to work under Linux? I use that
    for my main Windows PC and love it and want to see if it is possible to also get it to run under my Xubuntu clients as well.

    I've got it running here under Ubuntu 19.04. It's been awhile since I
    installed it, but let me play around with it and let you know.
    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (46:1/181)
  • From Black Panther@46:1/181 to LockeDown on Thu Jun 20 19:53:04 2019
    On 20 Jun 2019, LockeDown said the following...

    Got it working! Turns out the issue was trying to use "unrar-free" which does not like the format of RAR netrunner is compressed with.

    Ahhh, that was going to be what I looked at first... :)

    It's actually kind of great running it full screen on a small netbook. Full BBS focused experience.

    It's like the "Good Ol' Days"... ;)
    ---

    Black Panther(RCS)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (46:1/181)
  • From MeaTLoTioN@46:20/106 to LockeDown on Fri Jun 21 09:02:21 2019
    Has anyone been able to get netrunner to work under Linux? I use that
    for my main Windows PC and love it and want to see if it is possible to also get it to run under my Xubuntu clients as well.

    I also have NetRunner installed in Linux just fine. Get the latest version of it here; http://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads/prealpha/ - still in a rar file, but it might have been some flag you used instead of another to extract.

    I prefer SyncTERM over NetRunner as the font compatibility in NetRunner is still a little broken, there are missing fonts in it which bugs me.

    Good luck with it =)
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    |07ÄÄ |08[|10eml|08] |15ml@erb.pw |07ÄÄ |08[|10web|08] |15www.erb.pw |07ÄÄÄ¿ |07ÄÄ |08[|09fsx|08] |1521:1/158 |07ÄÄ |08[|11tqw|08] |151337:1/101 |07ÂÄÄÙ |07ÄÄ |08[|12rtn|08] |1580:774/81 |07ÄÂ |08[|14fdn|08] |152:250/5 |07ÄÄÄÙ
    |07ÄÄ |08[|10ark|08] |1510:104/2 |07ÄÙ

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Quantum Wormhole, Ramsgate, UK. bbs.erb.pw (46:20/106)
  • From calcmandan@46:1/150 to captain morgan on Wed Aug 14 23:17:05 2019
    Re: syncterm
    By: captain morgan to All on Thu Jun 20 2019 03:05 pm

    Just installed syncterm on a linux system and its great for connecting to bbs's such as this. Ascii art etc all display very well

    I downloaded it for linux (kubuntu) but it is source and i haven't compiled from source for so long i have no idea how to do it an it didn't include a readme or a list of dependencies other than
    the h files it came with.

    how did you do it?




    Daniel Traechin
    --- SBBSecho 3.08-Win32
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com (46:1/150)